Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:32:48 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, rh@matriplex.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral] Message-ID: <p0510100eb771169bf27a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010707203138B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107071003530.12602-100000@mail.matriplex.com> <20010707203138B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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At 10:30 AM -0700 7/7/01, Richard Hodges wrote: >Could I just ask exactly what the FreeBSD Foundation _is_? > >I read the announcement and bylaws, and it looks like it is supposed >to be the offical organization representing FreeBSD. On the other >hand, many people have suggested that there is no connection between >Core and the Foundation. It is a foundation which will fund some projects intended to benefit FreeBSD, and "the public good". People can send contributions to the foundation and get a tax write-off. For the most part, there could be a hundred different foundations, each contributing to freebsd in their own way, and any given FreeBSD user could contribute to the foundations that they "trust" the most, or which is funding the kinds of projects which that user is particularly interested in. The United Way collects money, and gives some of that to a local hospital. That does not mean the hospital IS the united way, or that the united way IS the hospital. They are separate entities. >Although I infer tacit consent, I have not heard any official >blessing of the Foundation, either. But there is more than a >hint of transfering the FreeBSD trademark to the Foundation. I'll admit that this trademark issue is the one very odd thing about the foundation. I like the idea of the foundation, and for the record I have already sent a small contribution to them. If good things come of that, I'll send more. Still, I am a bit uneasy about the trademark being turned over to them. Not that I worry about the individuals, but I wonder about the foundation itself. Let's say the trademark is moved, and then the foundation folds. What happens to the trademark then? What happens if the foundation gets the trademark, and then they DO have to legally defend it from someone who's just out to make trouble? Could such an action cause the demise of the foundation? On the other hand, I have no better course of action to suggest wrt the trademark. It's just that this is the one "odd thing" about the FreeBSD Foundation, at least in my mind. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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