Thread: [RFC] On the roles of Maemo Council and Maemo e.V.
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2014-10-21 , 23:30
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Originally Posted by Wikiwide View Post
The whole battle is not worth it. HiFo board decided to handover assets to e.V., HiFo board is doing that, Community cannot change that.
Not quite true. If there were an overwhelming desire for HiFo to remain, there is a way to make that happen. It would be very inefficient, and eat about half the funding we have, and would require a few US citizens from here to step up and want to take on the legal liabilities involved. But if it were the will of the community to do that, it's quite doable. I just don't see that strong of a will to keep it on, and frankly the alternative is far more efficient and has a core group ready already in position.

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
The way I see it, the proponents of "the council must stay" tend to see MCeV as a third party, the same way as Nokia used to be. In their view, the eV replaced Nokia.
Which is, in a legal sense, true. But it's not if they see HiFo/MCeV as Nokia. It's that they see them as "the competition", which must be fought against to "free Maemo" from "the corporation". The problem being, much like a house pet, Maemo can not simply be "freed to the wild". HiFo/MCeV fights to continue to provide a home instead.
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