Re: Resolution 1999-08-03.nl: Guidelines for Equipment and Service Donations

To the two questions - no, but a driver project could easily fit under
SPI's umbrella, and no, but the expectation is usually more of trying
than of succeeding.

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 10:48:04AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We (who is we?) develop drivers? I think there is an expectation but we
> cannot guarantee that we will fulfill that expectation.
>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > By no means - consider the hardware donations aimed at creating support
> > for the hardware. They give it to us on the condition that we use it
> > to develop drivers for it. It may be a foreign agenda, but it may also
> > be our own internal agenda.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 05:50:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > I would expect them at least to pretent that this is an altruistic act and
> > > agree to a no strings donation. We cannot allow a foreign agenda to
> > > control the organization.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Ean R . Schuessler wrote:
> > >
> > > > I disagree. I don't think that it would be unusual or, for that matter, unfair
> > > > for a donor to place some constraints on their donation. We must remember that
> > > > many times these donations will not be of a purely altruistic nature. I can
> > > > envision many situations where a donor may be giving something to us because
> > > > they hope that we can do something for them. I think that this may be
> > > > especially true in the case of large donations.
>

Dan

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