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Jimmy Wales, "punk capitalist"?

By Owen Thomas, 4:00 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008, 455 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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In a new book, The Pirate's Dilemma, author Matt Mason holds up geek heroes like Linus Torvalds and Jimmy Wales as icons of "punk capitalism." Given Wales's abject failure to profit from Wikipedia or his follow-on venture, Wikia, I'd say Mason has that label half-right.

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