[OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? -> How to make a nightmare come true!

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> Basically, you get enough people (and pay for their memberships) in order to 
> buy their votes, in order to eject the current chairman, yadda yadda yadda.

If you're unhappy with the current chairman you don't even have to eject 
him. Quote from the Articles of Association governing the running of OSMF:

"A member of the Board may [...] at any time, summon a meeting of the 
Board by notice served upon the several members of the Board. A member 
of the Board who is absent from the United Kingdom shall not be entitled 
to notice of a meeting."

And:

"The Board may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and 
otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit, and determine the 
quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Unless otherwise 
determined, two shall be a quorum."

So if the timing is right, you'll probably just have to buy one or two 
board members to get what you want ;-)

Bye
Frederik

(This is meant as a funny way to say that, when other important business 
has been resolved, we should perhaps one day clean up the AoA; it is not 
meant to suggest that there was something wrong with those serving on 
the OSMF board.)

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Frederik Ramm  ##  eMail frederik at remote.org  ##  N49°00'09" E008°23'33"