Re: steering committee vs foundation

[Bertrand Guiheneuf <bertrand henzai com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
>  
> I guess it makes me uncomfortable (quite uncomfortable, in fact) to
> think that the legal entity for GNOME (US) would be controlled
> primarily by companies contributing money, and not by the "hacker
> community". I doubt that the planned foundation for Europe is going
> to
> be organized along these lines.
No, it is not going to be organized this way. On the contrary, the idea
is to give hackers as most power as possible. Of course, companies
are
welcome, but as one of the goal for the EU foundation is to protect
the (EU) Gnome community, (individual) companies must have a
limited power in the foundation.
-- 
Bertrand Guiheneuf, CEO Henzai Inc.
http://www.henzai.com