Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] A suggested topic for Planning Counci

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Doug,

Doug Schaefer wrote:

I’m not sure the Board would agree that this isn’t about business.

I'm sure some/many of them would think it's about business...specifically *their* business.  But the EF is not a business, and the Board members are not representing shareholders.

At the end of the day the Board decides.

IANAL, but I don't think the Board can decide to have a non-profit organization (EF) do something that is clearly/obviously in the commercial interests of *some/one* of the member organizations.  Again IANAL so I may be wrong about details...but I think the Board does have responsibilities that are not the same as the feduciary responsibilities of a commercial organization's Board.

Scott