On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 17:17 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 07:07:45PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote:
> > On 02/11/2015 06:57 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 05:31:08PM -0500, Tony Sebro wrote:
> > >> The goal here is to prevent a corporation from taking
> > >> control over the project by hiring PLC members and/or otherwise
> > >> dominating the PLC, so that they could exploit Conservancy's nonprofit
> > >> structure to handle activities that really should fall under their
> > >> for-profit structure. It's not my intent to make this section onerous;
> > >> we can discuss ways to make it fit Inkscape's community standards.
> > > For much of the life of the project, Ted, Tim, and I all worked for
> > > Canonical, and served on the board as the project founders. Canonical
> > > could have cared less about Inkscape and had zero influence on board
> > > matters.
> > >
> > > Presently Jon and I both work for Samsung, having both just recently
> > > joined there. Samsung cares even less about Inkscape than Canonical
> > > did. Yet if this provision goes into effect, one or the other of us
> > > will have to step down.
> > >
> > Understood. For what it's worth, I've never received anyone complain or
> > insinuate that Inkscape is controlled or influenced by any one
> > corporation. Still: if an issue were to come up in the future, the
> > Inkscape Committee may benefit from avoiding even the optics of influence.
> >
> > What if we moved from "more than one member employed" to "more than 1/3"
> > or "more than 40%"? Would that give the Committee enough wiggle room
> > going forward?
>
> Probably should speak in fractions of sevenths, otherwise rounding is
> ambiguous. A hard limit of 3/7th would avoid majority control by any
> one employer while being flexible with membership.
I'm curious if there isn't a way for a company to specifically declare
non-interest in the project. While it would seem extreme, and probably
difficult to get at larger companies, it might be a way handle the
situation if it does become needed.
That being said, I wish we had a problem with too many companies being
interested in Inkscape and fighting over board seats :-P
Ted
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