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  • Lets say they are being very stupid in how they handle their money. They spend as much as they get every year. If they get more money, they spend more money. From the graph you can see that donation growth is slowing down, because of course it does, it cant just grow forever. The questions is whether they can lower their expenses when the donations inevitably shrink, or if they will sacrifice Wikipedia (the thing that people actually donate for) in favor of all the other things they are spending money on.

    A completely different perspective on this is that you should ask yourself whether the Wikimedia Foundation really is the organization/charity that needs your money the most. Or more bluntly, i am 100% certain that there are better things to donate to than the Wikimedia Foundation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics
    Black: Net assets / Green: Revenue (Donations) / Red: Expenses








  • No, not really. A company being able to prevent people from doing what they want with software they paid for on their own device by using copyright law is in fact not good news at all.

    Its not a sentence for hacking or something like that. Cheat software usually runs entirely on your device, the fact that its an online game isnt even part of the case from what i can see.

    This line of legal logic can and will totally be used to do evil things like banning modding or local cheating.

    Cheating just needs to be accepted as part of reality in games. The solution is better server side checks and faster bans, not interfering with peoples freedom to do what they want with their machine.

    Basically this just gives game companies a pass to behave like book/movie companies with DRM. Suing anyone that enables people to decrypt or modify the files that they paid for.