Not sure Anyway,
from \infrastructure\site\trunk\xdocs\foundation\thanks.xml ---- .... > <section> > <title>Platinum Sponsor(s)</title> > > <p>The Apache Software Foundation would like to thank the following > Platinum Sponsor(s):</p> > > <img src="images/google.jpg" alt="Google logo" title="Google logo" > border="0"/> > <p><a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>.</p><!-- 6/1/2007 --> > > <img src="images/yahoo.jpg" alt="Yahoo logo" title="Yahoo logo" border="0"/> > <p><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a>.</p><!-- 10/4/2007 --> > > <img src="images/microsoft.jpg" alt="Microsoft logo" title="Microsoft logo" > border="0"/> > <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft</a>.</p><!-- 25/7/2008 --> > > </section> > > <section> > <title>Gold Sponsor(s)</title> > > <p>The Apache Software Foundation would like to thank the following > Gold Sponsor(s):</p> > > <img src="images/hp.jpg" alt="HP logo" title="HP logo" border="0"/> > <p><a href="http://opensource.hp.com/">HP</a>.</p><!-- 6/1/2007 --> > > </section> > > <section> > <title>Silver Sponsor(s)</title> > > <p>The Apache Software Foundation would like to thank the following > Silver Sponsor(s):</p> > > <img src="images/covalent.jpg" alt="Covalent logo" title="Covalent logo" > border="0"/> > <p><a href="http://www.covalent.com/">Covalent</a>.</p><!-- 6/1/2007 --> > > <img src="images/IONA-Logo.gif" alt="IONA logo" title="IONA logo" border="0"/> > <p><a href="http://open.iona.com/">IONA</a>.</p><!-- 4/1/2008 --> > > </section> > > <section> > <title>Bronze Sponsor(s)</title> > > <p>The Apache Software Foundation would like to thank the following > Bronze Sponsor(s):</p> > > <p><a href="http://www.airplus.com/" rel="nofollow">AirPlus > International</a>.</p><!-- 12/1/2007 --> > <p><a href="http://ma.tt/" rel="nofollow">Matt Mullenweg</a>.</p><!-- > 1/29/2008 --> > <p><a href="http://people.apache.org/~tetsuya/">Tetsuya Kitahata</a>.</p><!-- > 6/1/2007 --> > <p><a href="http://www.twosigma.com/">Two Sigma Investments</a>.</p><!-- > 9/1/2007 --> > > </section> > > <section> > <title>Infrastructure support</title> > > <p>The Apache Software Foundation would like to thank the following > organizations for providing infrastructure support:</p> > > <img src="images/osl.jpg" alt="OSUOSL logo" title="OSUOSL logo" border="0"/> > <p>Server hosting and bandwidth provided by <a > href="http://www.osuosl.org/">Oregon State University Open Source Lab</a> > (USA) and <a > href="http://www.surfnet.nl/">SURFnet</a> (EU).</p> > > <p>Donation of servers: Sun and IBM.</p> > </section> --- from \infrastructure\site\trunk\xdocs\foundation\thanks.xml (See the !-- part) Why my bronze disappered by the commit by Jim (I memorized) and others exist. Further explainations please? You guys are DISCRIMINATORS utterly. hun bb Tetsuya ---- > << > P.S. Normally, "A donated to B" -- 'B' does not be cared. The action itself > would > be majored in a sense. At least in japan. B(Apache) is now exaggerating the > brand > or something -- wrong and bad phenomena > >> > > Hi Tetsuya, > > With all due respect, but I think you are confusing "donations" with > "investments". Donating does not give you any power to the donnor, it is just > thanking and helping some work to be done. For instance, if you donnated to > an NGO helping the poor people in Africa (or in Sri Lanka), you would > delegate your money to the NGO and not expect to tell to the NGO what to do. > You just rely on them. On the other side, if you bought shares for a company > (which is not the case of the ASF), you would be able to have your say, at > least for the percentage of actions that you own. > > About the gaming sites, in the Western world such sites normally have a bad > connotation and you normally don't want to mix something with a good name > (e.g. Apache) with that kind of gambling activities. I think that in the > Eastern world the perception of online gaming (or gaming in general) is > different and more open in a sense - not associated to corruption. That is > why people reacts so angrily with such proposals. > > As for saying that the foundation is "poisoned". Well, that is a big word to > use, > > Cheers, > > Bruno > > 2009/9/28 Tetsuya Kitahata <tets...@apache.org> > The only one thing I found out utterly is that the apache software > > foundation is poisoned by Jim Jagielski and there could be no > > curable way. > > > > 1. All the Sponsors who no pay should be deleted immediately from > > thanks.html > > even though "GOOGLE", "YAHOO", "MICROSOFT". > > 2. Jim Jagielski lied to me / us because "We will make thanks.html page > > soon" > > in the PDF which I first saw -- and for 6 months nothing happened. - 3 > > years ago iirc. > > > > Anyways, board - (1) should be done first. > > > > ---- > > > > Plus, those who can gather companies outside from the United States, > > go http://jakarta.jp/en > > and buy. I will take care of it and donate to apache for those companies' > > names - for sure (If they tell me so). > > > > 501(c) is for American Companies. Not Russian nor Chinese companies. > > Tax Deductive - meaningless. Although there is this fact, I donated as the > > first individual sponsor from JAPAN. http://an.to/asf > > DO YOU UNDERSTAND, MEN? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tetsuya. > > > > > > P.S. Normally, "A donated to B" -- 'B' does not be cared. The action > > itself would > > be majored in a sense. At least in japan. B(Apache) is now exaggerating > > the brand > > or something -- wrong and bad phenomena > > > > > > ---- > > > > > Just one message. > > > > > > Do you think that "MONEY MONEY" person would > > > do the PERSONAL SPONSORSHIP for poor Sri Lanka > > > (Shinhala) apache committer? > > > > > > Whether Lahiru was a lier or not, I do not care. But the [TRUTH] was > > [TRUTH]. > > > Please do not view all the things in prejudice. > > > > > > bb > > > > > > Tetsuya > > > > > > > Tetsuya, > > > > > > > > I have sent you a separate EMail. Please let me know if > > > > you have not rec'd it or if you don't understand it. > > > > > > > > Thx. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetsuya Kitahata -- Terra-International, Inc. - President - E-mail: kitah...@99.alumni.u-tokyo.ac.jp http://www.terra-intl.com Apache News Online http://www.apachenews.org/ Get Your LS with ONLY 50 EUR - http://jakarta.jp/pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org