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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> > The trustees, as a whole, have complete authority over |
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> > the project, and have the ability and legal authority to remove Council |
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> > members that they may feel are a threat to the long-term stability of the |
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> > project. |
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> Only on paper. If they actually tried to exercise this right it would |
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> certainly lead to complete chaos. I suspect for the most part |
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> everybody would just ignore them, and they'd be forced to try to |
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> undertake legal measures to seize control of the Foundation assets |
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> assuming they could even afford to do this. In the meantime most of |
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> the distro would probably just carry on without them. |
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No, you are misrepresenting the actual authority of Trustees. They have |
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actual, real authority over the project as opposed to imagined authority |
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that you seem to appeal to. |
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In the worst case Gentoo would end up changing its name and hosting. |
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> I suspect this would only happen after considerable expense by the |
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> Foundation to boot everybody out, assuming this even succeeded. |
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So, in other words, if the Trustees actually tried to do their job, you |
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would participate in a fork of the project and host it under another name. |
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I actually think that would acceptable. Please go ahead and do so, there is |
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nothing stopping you. But if you are continuing to participate in Gentoo, |
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then you need to respect the authority of the Trustees, whether you like it |
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or not. I will be supporting Gentoo, not your effort. |
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-Daniel |
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