Hi Ray On Tuesday 14 August 2007 15:45, Ray Henry wrote: > There was a heated discussion at that long ago FEST meeting in Ann Arbor > when we created the EMC board. It was related to it's (us) becoming a > legal entity.
Outside of the USA, any "entity" would have little, if any power or status. > It was my opinion, still is, that we need such an entity > so that we can accept and use contributions to the central benefit of > the project -- contributions of code, cash, or whatever. If you remember, part of the "boards" mandate was to act as an intermediatory to put interested parties in touch. e.g. Party A would offer hardware in exchange for suitable driver code. As for code contributions - Who decides what is good or bad ? > I certainly respect the opinions of the others there that disagreed. In > fact as a condition of the creation of a board we voted that it would > not become a legal entity and it would not accept nor distribute funds. Setting up a legal entity would end up being a cash cow with little benefit for the majority - Who would audit the accounts, fund legal representation, or a whole other bunch of stuff... > What those at the meeting did not know was that I had a couple thousand > dollars in my pocket at that moment, Likewise, there is still quite a considerable sum of dollars from the proceeds of BDI disks available - Some has already been used to purchase IO cards from the likes of Adlink, the remainder could be used for similar purposes. > I wonder if it isn't time to rethink the legal entity. If certain board members overstep their mandate, or fall back on a FU/O attitude to sidestep any issues/arguments, I doubt a legal entity would have any more credibility outside a gin house. Regards, Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
