Re: Bounty hunt, round 2.

[linas linas org (Linas Vepstas)]

Hi,

I was out on vacation, and in reading this thread, I never saw a
resolution.  How'd this all come out in the end?

--linas

p.s. I agree with RMS; If a company such as Novell needs an agent, 
then maybe OSDL might be a better venue?  OSDL seems well-structured 
to handle such things.


On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:21:27PM -0400, Richard Stallman was heard to remark:
>     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.
> 
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