What would you do with 100 million dollars?


by Omar Oct 23, 2006 fileunderFound in Wikipedia


Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia recently sent out this message:

I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you
would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of
generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be
purchased and freed.

Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase
copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you
like to see purchased and released under a free license?

Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific,
be general, brainstorm, have fun with it.

I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a
position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what
we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would
expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own.

--Jimbo

Comments

1.  avatar Omar said:

How about putting some money into a wiki site that is going to be the comprehensive resource for all product information and recommendations? I can't think of anything better.
Oct 23, 2006 7:41am
2.  avatar Erik said:

Hmmm...sounds familiar, Omar.
Oct 23, 2006 1:11pm
3.  avatar ObjectFetish said:

Oh, come on, Omar. And you, too, Eric. How about spending it all at http://ObjectFetish.com - you could clean us out!
Oct 24, 2006 1:13am
4.  avatar Erik said:

So how much stuff could we get for that sum?
Oct 24, 2006 1:16am
5.  avatar Patricknoddy said:

I would spend it on stock
Mar 06, 2007 4:17pm
6.  avatar dialupinternetuser said:

Music. Free music and more free software would be the best. I would also like to see free textbooks, in PDF format.
Oct 18, 2007 5:38pm
7.  avatar stormyhydro said:

I would play golf everywhere.
Jun 14, 2010 3:39am
Some HTML is allowed. Your comments remain editable after you post.