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On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:50:03 AM EST Matthias Maier wrote: |
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> What about you have a closer look at for example the Debian project [1]? |
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Or Ubuntu which superseded it, and tend to attract people before Debian. |
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> There, the project and its developer community is not organized in any |
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> legal entity. |
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Yes, they are a member of the SPI. There is a legal entity they are just |
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paying another to handle that for them. |
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> All business that requires a legal entity is organized via *mutliple* |
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> foundations [2,3] - none of which have any power over the project |
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> itself. |
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That is one model which few have adopted. |
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> This is exactly the model we have at the moment. |
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Not at all |
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> So what on earth is the problem? |
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Some will never understand or see it. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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