Resolution 1999-08-03.nl: Guidelines for Equipment and Service Donations

[Christoph Lameter]

This is naturally something else.... this is a designation of the funds
not a string attached.

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 05:50:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > I would expect them at least to pretent that this is an altruistic act and
> > agree to a no strings donation. We cannot allow a foreign agenda to
> > control the organization.
> > 
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Ean R . Schuessler wrote:
> > 
> > > I disagree. I don't think that it would be unusual or, for that matter, unfair
> > > for a donor to place some constraints on their donation. We must remember that
> > > many times these donations will not be of a purely altruistic nature. I can
> > > envision many situations where a donor may be giving something to us because
> > > they hope that we can do something for them. I think that this may be 
> > > especially true in the case of large donations.
> > 
> 
> In that case.. that means we can't allow /. to donate $10,000 to debian.
> It has to go to SPI to be divided by to all the various projects under
> SPI's umbrella.  That also means all "extra dollars" donated when a CD is
> purchased is the same...
> 
> That would also mean we turn down any and all donatations that come with
> any sort of stipulation...  
> 
> I would have to say, I'd rather stay open to donations with stipulations.
> I don't think we should have a "blanket accept" or "blanket reject" policy,
> though.
> 
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