Hi all. Gilbert sent this to me. He's not subscribed to general so he's not up to speed with the rest of the thread. I assume he came across the vote proposal and fired this off to me. I'm reposting it here with his permission. I'll try and respond to it via the list. -iain >X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web1106.mail.yahoo.com >X-Track: 1-1: 40 >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) >Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:14:25 -0400 >To: Iain Shigeoka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Gilbert Carl Herschberger II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: JOS President??? No way. > >Look at the constitution of the JOS Project which has been accepted by most >members of the JOS Project. There is no provision for the office of >president. There can be no president of the JOS Project unless the >constitution makes room for it. Only the constitution can define the role >of a president. > >Nominating a president and voting on it is outrageous. It may be a >misguided attempt to fix the public relations problems of an open source >and free license project. While you are working hard to make the JOS >Project succeed, I think you're going about it the wrong way. > >Start a legal organization of your own. Call it something else. If you want >to start your own organization with yourself as president, there is no >problem. If your organization is dedicated to promote the JOS Project, >there is no problem. If you want to link the JOS Project and your >organization together, there is no problem. But, your organization /is not/ >the JOS Project. > >None of the members of the JOS Project are employees. None of them are >under contract. The JOS Project is not a non-profit organization. It is an >open source project. No member is required to follow a "president" anyway. >Anyone acting as "president" is acting on their own. Claiming to be >"president" when there can be no president destroys the credibility of the >JOS Project as an open source initiative. > >No contract signed by such a "president" is legally binding on any member >of the JOS Project. It might be binding on members of your own organization. > >No license expedited by such a "president" is legally binding on any source >code added to the JOS Project umbrella. In no way does a JOS License >supercede the license chosen by its original author. A vote for a >"president" is a hollow and misleading victory. It accomplishes nothing. > >To use your priviledges as webmaster to announce your candidacy for >president might be considered an abuse of power. You need to step back and >look at what you're doing. The JOS Project doesn't own anything. It is not >a legal entity. No one person can speak on behalf of its members. It >doesn't need a president. > >Using the JOS Project mailing list to conduct a vote for president is >contrary to the constitution. First of all, the constitution must be >ammended to create a presidential office. If that vote succeeds, rules for >the office of president must be adopted in the same way. The constitution >has provision for this already. > >Have you become so impatient? Why is that? Please don't get ahead of >yourself. You should work with individual authors as I have done. Only the >jJOS/decaf subproject has moved to SourceForge, not the JOS Project. People >sometimes forget themselves because they want something so much. Don't let >that happen to you. _______________________________________________ General maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jos.org/mailman/listinfo/general
