Jelle Hermsen wrote:
It's really sad what's happening with Nokia. To me it just proves the point that important FLOSS projects are best off being governed by an independent foundation. I'm not sure what this all means to the KDE QT Foundation (http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php ) [...]
I feel that FLOSS projects are best off being governed by a contributor-led democratic association.
Foundations often either give special rights to the founders (like Nokia's two seats on the KDE Qt Foundation), or the organisation has a founding endowment which enables them more-or-less to ignore the wishes of contributors if its leaders decide to do that.
Isn't democracy usually a good way of ensuring enduring freedom?
Regards,