https://lwn.net/Articles/592594/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Karen Sandler joins Conservancy's Management Team". en-us Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:42:32 +0000 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:42:32 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/592650/ https://lwn.net/Articles/592650/ jhoblitt <div class="FormattedComment"> Many thanks two awesome and dedicated community members!<br> <p> I believe that "neutral harbors" like SFC/Apache/etc. are a critical foundation for the long term stability of FLOSS projects. There have been several notable examples in just the last year of projects fragmenting due to squabbles over trademarks, domain names, etc. that could have been avoided completely had the project been under the umbrella of a non-profit foundation.<br> <p> I worry about the long term future of several large/popular open source applications that are driven by a single for-profit entity that owns all of the assets. I think that we (as a community) need to start a dialog as to whether being "open source" is enough for the community at large to start investing in a primarily single [corporate] entity driven application or if there needs to be a social norm towards a non-profit foundation holding key "organizing" assets such as trademarks and domain names.<br> </div> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:17:27 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/592620/ https://lwn.net/Articles/592620/ bkuhn Karen <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2014/03/31/new-challenge/">blogged about leaving GNOME Foundation for Conservancy</a>, and I <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/03/31/karen-conservancy.html">also blogged about my reasons for seeking this transition</a>. Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:17:08 +0000