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On 17/06/18 03:43, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 10:34 PM M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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>> My synopsis from the peanut gallery, is that everyone wants the power, |
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>> with none of the responsibility that conventionally comes with it. |
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> The responsibility to run a non-profit corporation is purely |
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> self-imposed. Plenty of FOSS projects manage to govern themselves |
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> without requiring the people making the final decisions to file tax |
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> returns. |
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That liability was inherited, not actively chosen by *any* of the devs |
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of the last decade, or so. To change it, still requires that situation |
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be resolved .. whatever path is chosen .. |
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In some ways, winding up Gentoo Foundation, Inc. and starting again with |
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a 501(c)3 would be a better way forward, but since I don't know the |
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ins-and-outs of US organisations, I'm gonna stay outta the why's and |
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wherefores. |
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Suffice to say, TL;DR we gotta deal with the situation(s) we find |
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ourselves in today, not bikeshed what we would have done differently, or |
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who we can blame .. as that achieves nothing, and is wasted effort that |
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could be better spent elsewhere. Like fixing the problem .. |