Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

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    I think it would help if next time you please checked third party sites 
    when you are raising objections like these (or maybe have someone at the 
    FSF do the legwork?).

That's not a good idea, since it would have taken days.  The people I
can ask to check such things are volunteer helpers, and they don't
necessarily respond right away.  Thus, to have found all the answers
first would have meant a substantial delay, perhaps until after
a decision was made.

But there is another reason why it is better to raise the questions
immediately rather than wait and give the answers: to encourage people
here to investigate these issues rather than depend on me to think
of them.

Depending on someone else's web site always poses certain questions.
The answers vary from case to case, but the questions are the same.
It is best for the future of GNOME if several others mention these
questions, each time such an issue arises, so that the project won't
depend on me to mention them each time.  After all, I won't be around
forever.  We hope GNOME will last a long time.

Thus, rather than finding the answers elsewhere and (possibly) raising
_objections_ next week, I decided to raise _questions_ this week.  Can
people interested in using Bountysource please find out the pertinent
facts about it?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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