[Foundation-l] A train without destination?

[Geoffrey Plourde]

Remember, lawyers are a dime a dozen. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a nonprofit. Technically the argument could be made that they are committed to those goals. Please remember this is a hypothetical.



----- Original Message ----
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:05:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A train without destination?

On 17/03/2008, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> They are, but it is fairly easy to say that Bill Gates has the resources and power to further the goals of the Foundation.

If I was given all the assets of the WMF for $1, so would I. That's
not the point. The point is that the WMF is legally committed to those
goals, Bill Gates is not.

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