Re: when companies join over free software projects

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mark Galassi <rosalia@galassi.org> writes: 
> I thought that was the purpose of the GNOME steering committee.
>

The foundation institutionalizes the steering committee by making it
an elected body. As it is, people are a bit uncomfortable about how it
was created (most of all the steering committee members).
 
> 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.
> 

That too.

Havoc