From: papresco@lambert.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: A New Linux Foundation Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 14:03:10 GMT
In article <C4C53C.7A@sleeper.apana.org.au> raz@sleeper.apana.org.au (Roland Turner) writes:
>papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
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>>like maintaining bug databases, development databases, hardware compatibility
>>databases, FAQ databases. It could help to organize Linux user groups and
>>perhaps give money occasionally to Linux developers.
>
>>>I want
>>>
>>>No central cash box (=lots of problems)
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>>The Linux Foundation need have nothing to do with money. We'll form it *THEN*
>>decide what it is.
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>WRONG! Forming an organisation WITHOUT a clearly defined purpose is a recipe
>for disaster. To my knowledge, history contains NO counter-examples.
The purpose is defined. Linux advocacy. The methods are undefined.
This is exactly how the original Linux group worked: the purpose was
to build an OS. Nobody was sure who would do what,or how it would
work, but people started pitching in, and it did.
>>>I think nobody will pay money to a annonymous Foundation.
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>>They don't have to!
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>If nobody gives money, then your own suggestions above will become impossible,
>by definition. Carefully re-read the remark and your reply.
Read it again. I clearly stated that one of the purposes *MAY* involve money.