Nathan Kennedy wrote: > I've said this before, but the co-op may be nonprofit, but it's not a > charity. We should be agnostic to the content our members are hosting. As > I mentioned before, the pledge system was supposedly intended to be a > temporary fix and completely voluntary. > > We have many members who host websites for free for other organizations or > persons that they have various ties to. The member acts as administrator > for the website and as far as HCoop is concerned we don't even have to know > that this other organization even exists. It would seriously hamper > HCoop's utility if we did not allow this. >
I can't remember everything I've written in the past on this subject, but the issue for me has nothing to do with commercial-ness, but rather with providing hosting services to many people. We have some fixed costs that admit no clear assignment of responsibility among members. Thus, we split those costs evenly. A group of people getting together to use our services under a single membership subverts the notion of fairness that is at the heart of our dues scheme. A group using a single account clearly uses less of some resources than a group with different accounts, and so the group members shouldn't be paying full individual dues, but I believe we need to account for the discrepancy somehow. This has little to do with objective concerns and much more to do with the ideas of fairness that evolution has given our brains. _______________________________________________ HCoop-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-help
