Re: Additional questions for the board candidates

["Richard M. Stallman" <rms gnu org>]

    I guess it's the board's job to make sure that some kind of leadership 
    exists, but it's definitely not the board's place to make that kind of 
    decision. Otherwise someone would be asking prospective board members 
    whether they though Mono should be added to the bindings, and Beagle to 
    the platform.

Most technical questions are technical issues, and there is no need
for the board to concern itself with them.  But this one is an
exception.  Although the question is technical in form, the issue is
more legal and political than technical.  It concerns questions such
as the impact of possible patents.  Thus, it is a really a matter of
GNOME legal policy.

I think this is precisely the kind of question which the board should
decide.