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Il 25/08/2011 09:52, Frederik Ramm ha scritto:
<blockquote cite="mid:4E55FF52.1050908@remote.org" type="cite">Hi,
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Call me a cynic, but from my (limited) experience with other
not-for-profits and I tend to thinkg that the amount of fear,
hate, mistrust, and general bad karma is proportional to the size
and budget of the organisation.
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If we manage to keep OSMF small and relatively unimportant, then
we'll avoid problems like those. If we aim at 10k members, a
yearly budget in the six figures, and full-time staff, then we
*will* have these problems too.
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Bye
<br>
Frederik
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
This is my first post, so I hope not being out of place with my
comments.<br>
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Basically I'm on the same wavelength with Frederik (cynic #2 ;-).<br>
I red all the posts and agree that OSMF has a takeover risk and that
we can't do very much about it.<br>
Hard (and transparent) decisions like the one we are discussing
about are temporary solutions of People acting in good faith. I
trust them, but maybe something has to be done in order to lock down
OSMF principles and future. <br>
I'm not a lawyer and I know OSMF is not a corporation, but maybe
studying some sort of "Poison Pill" in order discourage hostile
takeovers can be a direction worth giving a look.<br>
Last thing, something that happened few months ago here in Italy
that sounds like a word to the wise: a hostile takeover of CIFA, a
NPO (non-profit organization) for children adoption (sorry, it's
only in italian).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aibi.it/ita/la-scalata-ostile-al-cifa-la-onlus-da-12-milioni/">http://www.aibi.it/ita/la-scalata-ostile-al-cifa-la-onlus-da-12-milioni/</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Alessandro Fanna<br>
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