Jelle Hermsen wrote: > It's really sad what's happening with Nokia. To me it just proves the > point that important FLOSS projects are best off being governed by an > independent foundation. I'm not sure what this all means to the KDE > QT Foundation > (http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php ) [...]
I feel that FLOSS projects are best off being governed by a contributor-led democratic association. Foundations often either give special rights to the founders (like Nokia's two seats on the KDE Qt Foundation), or the organisation has a founding endowment which enables them more-or-less to ignore the wishes of contributors if its leaders decide to do that. Isn't democracy usually a good way of ensuring enduring freedom? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work http://www.software.coop/products/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
