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Subject:    Re: On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the FSF
From:       Ingo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2021-04-01 10:55:02
Message-ID: 2148706.BxuCjFtVU1 () breq
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On Donnerstag, 1. April 2021 12:48:23 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote:
> They

Yes, sorry, of course I meant "they", the board. Not, "it".

> 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

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