Money is a Time Bomb for GNOME

[Andy Tai <atai ece ucsd edu>]

It seems there is no clearly defined purpose for the money proposed to be raised 
If RMS had let GNOME hackers  have the control over that $25K within 
the framework of the FSF, there would be no discussion for 
a separate GNOME Foundation.  

When companies pay money, they must expect something in return.  
When the companies' influence collide with the hackers,
there lay the seeds for division and split. (RedHat, Helix Code, Eazel excepted)

Does IBM pay membership fees to Apache?  No, although it donated code.
(The Apache Software Foundation seems to have no corporate members and no
membership fee)

Down the road, this money may do more harm than good to GNOME.

Just my 0.02 cent.