chris2001 - 2:37 pm on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)  > Basic questions:
> 1. Who actually has physical control and physical access to
the editorial server? If not ODP volunteers then who?  > 3. Who
is actually writing or re-writing the editorial server code and
determining configurations, etc.? The volunteers or someone on
the corporate side?  AOL/ODP staff only.  > 2. Is the ODP not a
public service or charitable work of Netscape/AOL? If so then
isn't the issue of "it's not profitable" a non-sequitor?
Corporations don't support "the arts" or a school or a kid's
camp to make a profit. They support an endeavor as an act of
public citizenship.  In my opinion, it is very much an act of
public citizenship, yes, of course - see [dmoz.org...]  The
suggestions above who could possibly profit of ODP (beyond the
searchers who use either dmoz.org or one of the many search
applications that make use of ODP data, naturally) are rather
focusing on profits for webmasters and Google. Commercial
profits of specific entities, that i