Lane Becker

I think when it comes to — I do a lot of straight-up financial negotiation with these companies. And in those situations, we are actually at a disadvantage. Right? So when it comes to the pure financial transaction, I like to joke that I am Wikimedia’s token capitalist. And I also like to say that one of the funny things about capitalism is that people generally do not like to pay for something when you have already given it to them for free. And that is true. Right? So — and I think some people have heard me say this before — I often say that our licenses, which I love, are our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. And it’s really situationally dependent. Right? And then in the situation of wandering into late-stage hypercapitalism with large-scale multinational techno-conglomerates, those licenses put us at a disadvantage, because they have a lot of leverage and we have very little.

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