On 7/29/06, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:39:06 -0400
"Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nope. Unless Timothy says he wants that money, i'm not
> > going to collect anything.
>
> Like I've said before, I don't want the responsibility.
I must have missed that. What responsibility?
Of managing someone else's money that I didn't earn by selling them a product.
> Plus, with
> Traversal, I think it presents a potential conflict of interests. Not
> to say that I would misappropriate the money,
Well, if i donate TT money to register at PCI SIG, where is the
missappropriation? And yes, i mean that this way. I don't care
if i send this money to OHF or TT or anyone else, as long as
we get a vendor id which we can use.
Well, yes, that's a good point. If you specifically designate it for
a purpose, that's just fine. I just don't want to manage unassigned
donations. That's what OHF is for.
Hopefully, well just be able to sell a few boards without a vendor ID
so we can turn around and use that money to get the vendor ID, at
which point, the user can decide to use that ID or not with the
downloadable PCI controller.
> but I don't want anyone
> to think I have the opportunity. OHF needs to get going just so they
> can handle these moneys properly.
Yes. What needs to be done there? Where can we help?
(I have no clue, as i've never been a member of such a
foundation, even less in one who is rooted in the US)
For some time now, we've been trying to motivate enough people to get
together and form the OHF. What you can do is either help reach that
critical mass of people and/or enthusiasm or take a leadership role.
(Although you personally are probably busy enough managing the list
and other things that you have helped with.)
I've started to see open source development as generally much more
cathedral than bazaar. Successful projects typically have one
central, charismatic leader whom everyone else listens to. Bit
Torrent has Cohen. Linux has Torvalds. Apple has Jobs. Although I
am not as great a man as they, I seem to be filling the same role
here. Someone else needs to fill that role for OHF.
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