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Date:      Thu, 05 Mar 1998 14:25:56 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Donations. 
Message-ID:  <199803052225.OAA17332@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 20:41:20 GMT." <35040d11.29515761@mail.cetlink.net> 

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>On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 20:30:07 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert
><tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>>but no voting or other crap should be employed in the decision making
>>process for resource allocation; there is no room for Gerrymandering.
>
>Why should donors part with their money if they have no control over
>getting their concerns addressed?

   Jordan was pretty clear about this already. Most non-profit organizations
work this way, for example - United Way, PBS, etc. The donors *trust* the
principals to spend the money in a wise and useful manner. Those organizations
with the best track record of this tend to be the ones that get the most
money. Noone except the board of directors has any real say in the way that
the money is spent, but people still donate because they believe in the cause
and the people behind it.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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