Re: Bounty hunt, round 2.

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

    Novell is funding the GNOME bounties, not the foundation.  We are paying
    the foundation a small administration fee to handle paying out the
    bounties; this is a pretty standard practice in non profits, it's
    something the GNOME foundation has done before for other people, and it
    was approved by the board last year.

It is proper for GNOME Foundation to accept funds from whomever so
that it can hand out bounties to promote its work on GNOME.  However,
the way you're describing it, the GNOME Foundation is handling these
bounties on behalf Novell.  That's not proper--it should not happen.
The GNOME Foundation of course accepts contributions towards the goal
of developing GNOME, but it shouldn't let itself become the agent of a
company, shouldn't let the company get in the driver's seat.