[WikiEN-l] Fundraising Banner

[Sam Korn]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:
> At 23:22 +0000 5/11/08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>2008/11/5 Giacomo M-Z <solebaciato at googlemail.com>:
>>>  obviously has money to spare - what more point would you like?
>>
>>1) That was 2 years ago, what relevance does it have now?
>>2) We use Freenode a lot, it makes sense to support them. It wasn't
>>just giving money away randomly because they had more than they knew
>>what to do with.
>
> My guess is that some people who might donate in the future would not
> donate (at all) unless they felt that their money would go to the
> Foundation only. It is a given that the Foundation donated 5,000 USD
> to a third party, and hence might choose to repeat that donation or a
> similar donation in the future.

It is, of course, a no-brainer that the Foundation should be able to
support other organisations if it supports its mission.  I'm not going
to get into the debate about whether this particular donation is
reasonable, but to say that donations to third parties are wrong per
se is, I think, wrong-headed.  The real question is about whether the
donation supports, directly or indirectly, the Foundation's mission.

-- 
Sam
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