[OpenID] Q&A: Who gets to vote?

[Jack Cleaver]

Dick Hardt wrote:
> The membership committee decided the membership fees. It does cost
> money to run the Foundation, and we felt the $100 was a nominal fee
> for an individual to pay to join the Foundation.

$100 would pay for a new video card, a daytrip to London (from here in
Oxford), or quite a few other things I can't afford. If you charge $100
for membership, you are stating clearly that you don't want anything to
do with individual volunteers (because nobody will pay for the privilege
of volunteering). You are in fact emitting strong signals that this is a
corporate project.

You *could* of course charge volunteers a fee that really was nominal -
a tenner, say - and fund your foundation out of corporate contributions.
The fact that you don't speaks volumes.

Incidentally, as far as volunteers is concerned: I have on several
occasions seen comments from some of the (corporate) regulars here, to
the effect that we don't want any more implementations, thank you very
much; the existing (corporate) implementations all work very well, what
we need is consumers and users (and perhaps advocates). So that's really
saying the same thing: the code is written, the trademarks are
registered, it just isn't selling.

I gave up coding a year ago, by the way.

-- 
Jack.