[advocacy] Xiph Foundation

[Krishna E. Bera]

Hi!

The 20 August 2001 press release says this about the Foundation:

> For more information on the Xiph.org Foundation and to discuss corporate 
> or personal support for the Foundation's work, contact Patrick Mahoney at 
> 415-235-5645.

I want to give money, having been recently dissed by RealNetworks.
I can use credit card, PayPal, cheque or money order.
However, it's going to cost me a bundle to call long distance.
Could the patronage info and forms be placed online 
or can you supply a contact email address?

Secondly, the About webpage waxes eloquently on the Tragedy of the Commons 
and proffers Open Source as saviour.  I disagree: if software doesn't have
a GPL-compatible licence, it is vulnerable to languishing and attrition.
Open Source can be proprietary as Sun has shown, and BSD licensed works
have been taken up by Microsoft-like entities and forked away.  
It seems to me that the spirit of your mission is embodied better by 
the Free Software philosophy, so why not embrace it openly?  

Cheers,

-- 
Krishna E. Bera  
<keb at cyblings.on.ca>

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