Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net writes:
any action that would injure the movement would also injure the Foundation by definition. Denny is quite correct that trustees have a legal obligation to put the Foundation before anything else, however there's usually a fair bit of latitude in how that obligation is interpreted.
Yes.
DGG writes:
Rather, the movement is to create a model of free human interaction and work, and the initial way of exemplifying this is in the various versions of the encyclopedia.
+100. Edit this a bit and it will be a perfect quote.
a model of free cooperative expression of the manifestations of human intellectual work and creativity... is fundamentally and radically in conflict with such formal organization...
< To the extent we need it, it is only to serve some limited purposes
necessary in the economic and legal world as it is.
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Unfortunately... human history shows that structures intended to have such limited supporting purposes do not easily remain in this limited role
I appreciate this long view. It is true, similar to the arc that leads to policy creep even where it is counterprouctive; and each requires steady awareness to balance.