[eb]

I don't think that's true. Those sites grew mostly through word of mouth. I don't consider that to be devious.

What's wrong with Jimmy Wales operating a porn site? I don't see how that's related to Wikipedia.

[steveblgh]

Nothing wrong at all. I think he used it to finance wikipedia/nupedia in the early stages though. I just tried to give examples of things that started not necessarily with the thought of making the world a better place.