[Foundation-l] This is not an Advertisement @ pgunn

[Gerard Meijssen]

Andrew Gray schreef:
> On 02/01/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> That's the bottom line.  What's most frightening is the thought that at
>> some future time someone or some future board would turn all these
>> efforts into something proprietary.  I think we are safe with the
>> present Board, but we do need to safeguard against such eventualities in
>> the longer term.
>>     
>
> It is worth remembering - whatever any future Board does only affects
> the 'container', the sites and the names. The legal ownership or
> control of the content does not rest with the Board, and they'd be
> hard pressed to find any way to make it proprietary and unfree.
Hoi,
This may be true, but it does not mean that people who have an opinion 
that differs from the board can leverage their control of "their" 
content. When the board leaves the content as is, they can manipulate 
the container and it is the container that gives the content in the end 
its value.
Thanks,
    GerardM