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ChristianKl comments on Google vs Wikipedia, for-profit vs not-for-profit - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: Schmoo 08 April 2014 02:42PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 April 2014 09:57:30AM 0 points [-]

No, the orginal post pretends that for profit company don't release stuff into the public domain.

The idea that nonprofits simply give all there resources into the public domain is without basis. The Americal Chemical Association which happens to be a non-for-profit sued Wikipedia for violating it's intellectual property by integrating CAS numbers information about chemicals into Wikipedia.