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Posted to dev@diversity.apache.org by Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com> on 2019/07/02 10:53:54 UTC
Re: Request for summary update (was Re: Does Outreachy mean we are
paying for code? Is that acceptable?)
Certainly this is a foundation-wide issue and question... If there is desire to discuss this further, I'd suggest we take this thread to board@, which is where ASF policy is discussed.
On 2019/07/01 15:47:21, Patricia Shanahan <p....@acm.org> wrote:
>
> I find the idea of any axioms other than producing open source software >
> for the public good very troubling, and scary for the long term survival >
> of the ASF. The more axioms an organization has, in addition to its >
> primary purpose, the greater the risk of the organization dying because >
> it cannot make a change that would have let it continue to achieve its >
> purpose.>
>
> Of course, an organization can have ways of doing things that have >
> worked well in the past, and should not be changed without very good >
> reasons, but those are tools, not axioms.>
>