Working together and gaining trust

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Jeff,

Jeffrey Law wrote earlier today:
> I think we're still missing a key point.  Namely that from a fundraising
> standpoint there are companies out there that are not willing to channel
> money to Red Hat to run sourceware, nor are they willing to fund via the
> FSF.   As soon as you bring in Red Hat or the FSF you cut off those sources
> of funding.  They are willing to fund infrastructure (via the CTI) outside
> the Red Hat and FSF organizations.

Could you please name the specific organization(s) that would make a
substantial ( ≥ $10k) contribution to fund Sourceware and/or infrastructure
for glibc that would be unwilling to give such funds to all of the following
organizations: { Red Hat, FSF, FSF Europe, Software Freedom Conservancy }

It would surprise me that such a donor exists — particularly given that they
could earmark these donations specifically to support Sourceware
infrastructure, or even Sourceware infrastructure specifically for glibc.

But, if there is an example of such an organization, we should make it
publicly known.  And we should ask these organizations why they have
blackballed such a large swath of FOSS organizations, and they should answer
this publicly — in the spirit or transparency and software freedom.

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