Re: Membership

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> writes:

> Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> writes:
> 
> > Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> writes:
> > 
> > Well, what I wanted to avoid is to prevent that person Foo Bar who's
> > working for Evil Dot Com which forces Foo Bar to abuse his membership
> > to suit Evil Dot Com's interest to become a member.
> > 
> > The problem is that if we only honor the amount of contribution
> > companies can very easily become voting ability by hiring someone for
> > some time.
> 
> If some malignant company hired enough GNOME hackers for this to make
> a difference, they could do much worse things than just abuse the
> voting priveleges. 

Hmm, you're right. I was really too paranoid.

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