Re: [libreplanet-discuss] membership confusion, FSF way forward

[Leah Rowe]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:16:01 -0500
Will Hill <will.hillnotes@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 22 September 2019, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >  all the 1466 volunteers, associate members and any new volunteers
> > who joined recently must be given equal voting rights.
> 
> The next day, Bill Gates would have 20,000 Microsoft employees join
> as voting members.  For the low price of $40,000/month, Bill Gates
> would own the FSF and I'd vote by dropping my membership.  
> 

I agree 1000%. When I talked about collective efforts I was mainly
thinking of the members, in terms of better coordinating people to
advance the FSF's status and to advance the movement in positive ways.

If members could vote on FSF decisions, the organisation would die
overnight; or more likely, it would still exist but its strength would
be degraded greatly.

We need a strong leadership (led by RMS or someone like him) to steer
the movement.

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