[Zope-dev] Re: [Z3lab] Zope Corporation's Initial Reaction on the ZF Comments

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Fri Jun 17 12:44:53 EDT 2005


Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
...
>>I can't think of any open source foundation that has
>>company voting in the governance.  There is a role for
>>companies, as sponsors.  But, not in the governance.
> 
> 
> Stefane pointed out the Eclipse Foundation already, so it's
> a little surprising that you are still looking for an
> example of another successful open source Foundation that is
> also openly vendor friendly, if not vendor driven.

The Python Software Foundation has company members with
Company-specific votes.  When I attend PSF meetings, I vote twice,
once for myself and once for ZC.

Jim

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