On 23/09/2019 01:54, Adrienne G. Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 6:19 PM Will Hill <[1][email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sunday 22 September 2019, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > all the 1466 volunteers, associate members and any new volunteers > who > > joined recently must be given equal voting rights. > The next day, Bill Gates would have 20,000 Microsoft employees join > as voting > members. For the low price of $40,000/month, Bill Gates would own > the FSF > and I'd vote by dropping my membership. > > They wouldn't just be Microsoft employees either. All the corporate > empires could participate. There would be no need to take down the FSF > President in the manner in which they've done. The era of Free Software > (as we know it) would be over.
Having been a member of a number of organizations outside the free software space, I feel these problems are over-exaggerated and can be easily mitigated with the right strategies. These problems are not new by any means. The big problem for free software organizations is a DIY-culture: people refuse to get outside help and insist on re-inventing the wheel. Other organizations in other fields of endeavour have solved these problems before and FSF can learn from them. I agree with your concerns, I simply don't agree that they are an insurmountable barrier. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
