Toby Bartels wrote:
When we get a nonprofit set up, will you maintain
ultimate control?
The nonprofit will maintain ultimate control, which means that the
board of directors will maintain ultimate control. I will be on the
board of directors, of course. And I will pack the board of directors
with people who agree with me about NPOV, etc.
My goal is that the things I regard as of fundamental importance are
preserved. It would be a great tragedy to me to have spent all this
money to jump start my vision, only to see it corrupted by poor
choices about a nonprofit organization.
Suppose I turn everything over to the nonprofit and I'm immediately
outvoted and new policies are insitituted to create a hierarchical
system with a controlling cabal with a particular political agenda.
That would be tragic to me.
So, for obvious reasons, I will carefully set up the organization so
that my control of these fundamentals is continued, at least by proxy.
(I.E., I won't be inviting '24' or Helga onto the board of directors!)
Or will the nonprofit raise funds and pay you for
server usage?
There will be no need to pay me for server usage for the foreseeable
future. Probably I will not be buying any more $3000 servers.
Probably.
If you won't maintain ultimate control anymore,
then that would be
the time to approach EL.
That's probably right. But they will have to understand that the
nonprofit would exercise ultimate control, which indirectly means me.
--Jimbo