So, let’s go big picture here. Let’s get away from the specifics. Let’s even assume that she’s a bad person to put in place, or that her office is unnecessary.
I’m not donating money to the GNOME Foundation. It’s not my money at stake. Unless you’re a donor, it’s not your money at stake.
I’m not familiar with the GNOME Foundation, but I can tell you right now that it doesn’t get exclusive control of GNOME. They don’t hold IP rights over GNOME software. If people and companies don’t like where they’re going, they can ignore them.
I think that it was Linus Torvalds who once pointed out that his only authority derives from the fact that people generally felt that he was doing a good job, and if that changed, he wouldn’t have that authority.
Even if they fund work on a project, you want to fork an open-source project, you can fork it. Wouldn’t be the first time that a fork has supplanted a parent project.
So, let’s go big picture here. Let’s get away from the specifics. Let’s even assume that she’s a bad person to put in place, or that her office is unnecessary.
I’m not donating money to the GNOME Foundation. It’s not my money at stake. Unless you’re a donor, it’s not your money at stake.
I’m not familiar with the GNOME Foundation, but I can tell you right now that it doesn’t get exclusive control of GNOME. They don’t hold IP rights over GNOME software. If people and companies don’t like where they’re going, they can ignore them.
I think that it was Linus Torvalds who once pointed out that his only authority derives from the fact that people generally felt that he was doing a good job, and if that changed, he wouldn’t have that authority.
Even if they fund work on a project, you want to fork an open-source project, you can fork it. Wouldn’t be the first time that a fork has supplanted a parent project.