Ian wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > > how could a corporation come in and take over a community and > > take control of their budget? > > Because there was no legal entity - that is why a Foundation was needed > from the outset.
Well, OpenOffice.org donations go to Team OpenOffice.org e.V. (not to be confused with OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.) http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html and the treasurer of Team OpenOffice.org e.V. happens to be from Oracle: http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=budget&msgNo=255 and again we are back in the situation Jean correctly described as "messy". Regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
