Silicon Alley Reporter Jason Calcanis begged Jimbo Wales, the founder and president of wikimedia foundation to put ads on wikipedia and monetise wikipedia content.
Jason suggested him to put a leaderboard on Wikipedia and told him he would get AOL to sell it and host Wikipedia for free. Jason explained to him in detail how that one leaderboard could make over $100M per year and told him that they should take the $100M and give it to charity. Jimbo stay fixed on his stance to keep Wikipedia free of Ads.
Majority of people are talking against Jason Calcanis but market analysts say its not a good thing to leave money on the table that could otherwise go to a good cause. It will in no way distract users to read or research by telling them that they might like this or that product, when its relevant to what they are reading.
What do you think ??
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