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

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

By no means - consider the hardware donations aimed at creating support
for the hardware.  They give it to us on the condition that we use it
to develop drivers for it.  It may be a foreign agenda, but it may also
be our own internal agenda.

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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to spi-general-request at lists.spi-inc.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster at lists.spi-inc.org
> 


Dan

/--------------------------------\  /--------------------------------\
|       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|        SCS Class of 2002       |
|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
|         dan at debian.org         |  |       dmj+ at andrew.cmu.edu      |
\--------------------------------/  \--------------------------------/