Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 14:44:34 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, (John Kelly) <jak@cetlink.net> Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <XFMail.980305144434.dburr@POBoxes.com> In-Reply-To: <199803052225.OAA17332@implode.root.com>
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My secret spy satellite informs me that on 05-Mar-98, David Greenman wrote: > Thanks for using NetForward! > http://www.netforward.com > v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v > >>On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 20:30:07 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert >><tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: >> >>>but no voting or other crap should be employed in the decision making >>>process for resource allocation; there is no room for Gerrymandering. Precisely. Once you start getting into voting and all that crap, that's "buying into" a company (e.g. stockholding). As long as you're doing that, you might as well file for an IPO and start trading on NASDAQ or something. >>Why should donors part with their money if they have no control over >>getting their concerns addressed? > > Jordan was pretty clear about this already. Most non-profit > organizations > work this way, for example - United Way, PBS, etc. The donors *trust* > the > principals to spend the money in a wise and useful manner. Those > organizations > with the best track record of this tend to be the ones that get the most > money. Noone except the board of directors has any real say in the way > that > the money is spent, but people still donate because they believe in the > cause > and the people behind it. This is a very good point. When I send in my $12 a month to Children International, I trust that they will use the money wisely and take care of my sponsor child. And so far my trust has been justified. However, IMHO the "good" organizations (Children Int'l included) periodically send out "status reports" on what's going on, what the money is being used for, etc. (similar in concept to the annual reports that stockholders in corporations get -- going back to the stockholder analogy). This helps assuage any doubts that might crop up, and in fact is what got me to "trust" Children Int'l in the first place (looking at the reports that were sent to a friend of mine who is also a donor). Hopefully FreeBSD will consider adopting a similar practice. --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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