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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Rich, there is so many things wrong with what you just said, I don't know |
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> where to begin. First, I have noticed that you have a tendency of making |
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> insulting comments about the Trustees as well as Foundation members who have |
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> legitimate concerns. Your comment above is insulting to the Trustees. It is |
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> not helpful to be dismissive or insulting. |
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You do realize that this very topic was brought up in an insulting |
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email written by a Trustee putting down the members of the Council, |
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right? |
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And I've repeatedly said that my intent is not to smear individual |
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Trustees and that I believe that most participating in this discussion |
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right now mean well. I think that the problems here are systemic, and |
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not so much with the individuals, other than that they are human and |
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unpaid volunteers (which is systemic). Heck, I used to be a Trustee |
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and was an officer until not all that long ago. |
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There are MANY of us who have concerns over Gentoo's current state. |
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The problem is that there is disagreement around how to resolve it. |
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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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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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But, this is all hypothetical. I doubt any of this would ever happen, |
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because the Trustees have no incentive to basically destroy the |
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Foundation over something like this. At the very least it would be |
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counterproductive. |
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Rich |
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