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		pyre on April 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover You can't fork funding, but I'm thinking that we're talking about forking content. If the Wikimedia Foundation decided to go in a direction people didn't like, it would be possible to fork all of their content and start your own competing wiki (bring your own funding, of course).

acomar on April 10, 2013 [–]

Of course, but that does nothing to take power over research away from the likes of Sarah Palin and Todd Akin.

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