Re: when companies join over free software projects

[Mark Galassi <rosalia galassi org>]

    Bart> I think Miguel has done an incredible job leading the GNOME
    Bart> project and will always be a key person in the GNOME
    Bart> community (witness: the awesome job he did at the press
    Bart> event this week) but I think being co-founder of a GNOME
    Bart> company is inherently a huge conflict with his role as
    Bart> leader of the GNOME project.  In my opinion, this is
    Bart> probably the most important reason for the creation of the
    Bart> GNOME Foundation: since Miguel has such a huge stake in a
    Bart> GNOME company, we have to move away from the Linus
    Bart> governance model, towards a team governance model, a la,
    Bart> Apache.

I thought that was the purpose of the GNOME steering committee.

I also thought the GNOME foundation was created as an umbrella to
receive and deal with corporate donations, like the VA Linux money
from a few months back.