On 8/19/2013 9:42 PM, Duncan Bayne wrote:
Members of W3C pay according to a well defined schedule which gives them
full Membership privileges. No extra money has been paid for anything
related to EME.
W3C Director, Tim Berners-Lee decides on the scope of Working Groups. I
find it pretty offensive that someone would suggest that he makes these
decisions based on money paid.
I'm sorry if my post seemed to be making that claim. That was
definitely not my intent.
I appreciate the clarification. I apologize if I over-reacted.
Rather, I was claiming that the richer, more prominent members of the
W3C seem to have a disproportionate influence in such scope decisions.
I'm not saying that they are literally paying for influence; I don't
believe that either you or the Director would stand for that.
What I'm saying is that - by virtue of their wealth and influence in the
industry - they appear to have set the terms of this work & the
surrounding discussion from the outset.
This is the 'crisis of representation' that was discussed in the article
I linked to in my post.
The same thing plays out in other organisations; even without 'campaign
donations', the CEO of a billion-dollar company is going to be able to
talk personally with the Prime Minister, and as the founder of a two-man
startup, I'm not.
