On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the FSF

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Donnerstag, 1. April 2021 12:48:23 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote:
> They

Yes, sorry, of course I meant "they", the board. Not, "it".

> Il giorno gio 1 apr 2021 alle ore 12:45 Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> ha
> scritto:
> > On Donnerstag, 1. April 2021 00:27:57 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > I feel that making a distinction between "KDE e.V. Board of Directors"
> > > and "KDE e.V." is artificial, the board of directors have been
> > > democratically elected to talk in name of KDE e.V.
> > 
> > Hmm, okay. The board may talk in the name of the KDE e.V., but that
> > doesn't mean it talks in the name of all members of the KDE e.V., the same
> > way that a democratically elected government talks in the name of the
> > corresponding country as a whole, but certainly doesn't talk in the name
> > of each of its citizens.
> 
> They talk in the name of the *country*. If you are elected as a
> representative of Italy, you
> talk in the name of Italy. Not "part of" Italy, not "most of" Italy, not
> "all of" Italy, just Italy.
> If you are elected representative of KDE, you speak in the name of KDE.

Regards,
Ingo
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/attachments/20210401/0b99f404/attachment.sig>