[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Milton L Mueller]

I hope no one thinks I was asserting that ALL CS organizations are "nothing but....."
SOME (even many) governments are more or less democratic; some businesses more or less support free(r) markets; some CS organizations are based on conscience 
I was mainly arguing against a simple division of the entire world into those three categories. 
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From: Tapani Tarvainen [tapani.tarvainen at effi.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:40 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:23:53PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm (jeremy at ciroap.org) wr
> On 04/03/2010, at 1:45 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> > 3. how many CS organizations are nothing but receptacles for money
> > generated either by govt or by business?

> Almost all of them, I guess.

But only almost! I can claim Effi as an exception, as we
receive money from neither government nor businesses.

(Our funding comes from membership fees, individual donations
and T-shirt sales. I don't claim we'd unconditionally reject
donations from businesses should it come to that, but so
far none has been offered nor have we solicited any.
As for the government, money flows to the opposite
direction as we pay taxes for our meagre T-shirt sales.)

--
Tapani Tarvainen
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