On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Robert Rohde<rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I hedged my language because I don't believe it is
that simple. I do
believe the money and the seat are linked, but I don't believe just
Thats quite fair, however:
anyone could buy a seat for $2M. For example, I doubt
Mr. Kohs would
be seated even if he had $2M to offer
Should we not refer to elected candidates as elected when exactly the
same provision applies?
[snip]
(Or at least I want to believe that the existing Board
is capable of
walking away from "piles of money" if it came with too many strings
and conflicts attached.)
There is absolutely no reason to doubt that. None at all. It happens
every single day that the Wikimedia sites do not run advertising.