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Subject:    Re: On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the FSF
From:       Niccolò_Ve <niccolo.venerandi () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-04-01 10:48:23
Message-ID: CAHWRx6TpV3x06iMW6c-SiMWVVDonXHLFYF5+TP2JuTteVQFZYg () mail ! gmail ! com
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Il giorno gio 1 apr 2021 alle ore 12:45 Ingo Klöcker <kloecker@kde.org> ha
scritto:

> On Donnerstag, 1. April 2021 00:27:57 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > I feel that making a distinction between "KDE e.V. Board of Directors"
> and
> > "KDE e.V." is artificial, the board of directors have been democratically
> > elected to talk in name of KDE e.V.
>
> Hmm, okay. The board may talk in the name of the KDE e.V., but that
> doesn't
> mean it talks in the name of all members of the KDE e.V., the same way
> that a
> democratically elected government talks in the name of the corresponding
> country as a whole, but certainly doesn't talk in the name of each of its
> citizens.
>

They talk in the name of the *country*. If you are elected as a
representative of Italy, you
talk in the name of Italy. Not "part of" Italy, not "most of" Italy, not
"all of" Italy, just Italy.
If you are elected representative of KDE, you speak in the name of KDE.


> Regards,
> Ingo
>


-- 
Niccolò Venerandi

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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">They <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div \
dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno gio 1 apr 2021 alle ore 12:45 Ingo Klöcker \
&lt;<a href="mailto:kloecker@kde.org">kloecker@kde.org</a>&gt; ha \
scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Donnerstag, 1. \
April 2021 00:27:57 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:<br> &gt; I feel that making a \
distinction between &quot;KDE e.V. Board of Directors&quot; and<br> &gt; &quot;KDE \
e.V.&quot; is artificial, the board of directors have been democratically<br> &gt; \
elected to talk in name of KDE e.V.<br> <br>
Hmm, okay. The board may talk in the name of the KDE e.V., but that doesn&#39;t <br>
mean it talks in the name of all members of the KDE e.V., the same way that a <br>
democratically elected government talks in the name of the corresponding <br>
country as a whole, but certainly doesn&#39;t talk in the name of each of its <br>
citizens.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They talk in the name of the \
<i>country</i>. If you are elected as a representative of Italy, you</div><div>talk \
in the name of Italy. Not &quot;part of&quot; Italy, not &quot;most of&quot; Italy, \
not &quot;all of&quot; Italy, just Italy.<br></div><div>If you are elected \
representative of KDE, you speak in the name of KDE.</div><div><br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br>
Regards,<br>
Ingo<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" \
class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div \
dir="ltr">Niccolò Venerandi<br><div \
style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>



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