[Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

Sun Nov 21 02:00:05 UTC 2010

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On 20/11/2010 09:37, Craig Franklin wrote:
> I don't know any of these people personally, but $128k a year for a legal
> expert of Mike Godwin's stature and experience sounds like a bargain, not an
> unreasonable expense.  Given that WMF needs competent legal representation,
> and given that the WMF is not exactly flush with cash, we should be thanking
> Mike for essentially taking a pay cut compared to what he could probably
> have made in the for-profit sector.
> 
>>> Also, at page 7, three major compensations are described:
>>> Sue Gardner was compensated 175050$ (equivalent to a monthly 14587$
>> income)
>>> Veronique Kessler was compensated 121859$ (equivalent to a monthly 
>>> 10155$ income) Mike Godwin was compensated 128139$ (equivalent to a 
>>> monthly 10678$ income).

Thank you everybody for explaining your views.
Most of the US inhabitants who answered me seem to be living and
believing in a hierarchical and competitive world where the highest
ranked ones- who are praised as gods - take from the lowest ones - who
are just good enough to give their money and effort. As a matter of
fact, their society seems organized to maximize money and it is echoed
in their opinion about how to manage this huge collaborative effort
about knowledge called Wikipedia.

This conditioned acceptance - conditioned in the sense that it seems
natural and the only imaginable solution - reflects a strong, current,
ubiquitous, western, capitalist, materialist and proprietary cultural bias.

The alternatives are infinite, though. I would like to know what you
think of complementarity, creativity, liberty, conviviality, sharing,
and optimizing (instead of maximizing) for example. Are they completely
out of your scope, out of your hopes and wishes?

My understanding of the Social Contract of Debian that Milos mentioned
[1] is not as a legal policies but as ethical policies. I don't feel it
has been properly discussed yet.

[1]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract

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