There mere fact that we founded the organization must account to something - even if we decide, later on, to be non-active members. Please give due respect to those who started it all.
I mean, Kelsey is busy with his SM conglomerate (hehehe), Doc Mana is busy training students, Eric is busy maintaining UPM's IT infrastructure the same way that Sammy and I are doing our jobs. Do *NOT* penalize us for being busy -- besides, we do monitor the list still! The Constitution must also allow the Board to recommend other people to be awarded with lifetime memberships - such as Migs Paras, who did a very good job whilst he was president. However, these nominations must be approved by the GA. On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:42:03 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:45:45 +0800, Rommel Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lifetime membership only applies to individuals. I do not think that > > it is appropriate to have institutions as lifetime members. I mean, 10 > > years down the road, UP may dump Linux (heaven forbid!) in favor of > > Microsoft (will $50Million grant do it?) and it will render its > > lifetime membership void. hehehe... don't worry, as long as I'm with > > UP, Linux will live there! :D > > While I do like the idea of lifetime memberships, wouldn't it be > unsafe to wager that individuals' beliefs wouldn't waver as time > passes? 10 years down the road, some of us might even be dumping Linux > in favor of some other non-free operating system out there. > > -- > Paolo Alexis Falcone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
