[Foundation-l] Latest board resolutions

Mon Jul 31 17:19:22 UTC 2006

Ray Saintonge wrote:

>Jack wrote:
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>>>>>I'm just not comfortable with leasing period.
>>>>>I find Wikipedia to be too important to leave in anyone's hands
>>>>>other than the immediate foundation.  A company that leases
>>>>>servers may easily give in to legal challenges or other backhanded
>>>>>threats.
>>>>>-- mboverload
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>>>It seems rather far fetched to me that a company with a big leasing
>>>contract like this is going to just decide to break its contract and
>>>confiscate its servers.
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>>See "FBI seizes Indymedia servers"
>><http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/08/1097089554894.html>
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>Nothing we do can prevent this kind of activity from the American KGB. 
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Who said it had to be the FBI for that matter.  The State of Florida is 
just as capable of messing around like this as well (or other local law 
enforcement agencies), and likely to screw things up when they try to 
physcially seize the equipment... or more so since they don't tend to 
have the technical background of the FBI.

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Robert Scott Horning