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Comment by adev_

7 hours ago

> Any institution quickly becomes a corrupt shadow of what it was originally envisioned as once the original people involved move on.

The debian project here acts as a counter-example: The institution governing the project far outlived its original creator and the "debian social contract" clearly helped to that.

Additionally, Infomaniak seems to have registered here as a Swiss "public interest" foundation. This has several implications:

(1) Swiss authority regularly audit the foundation and verify that there is no conflict of interests with the registered chart.

(2) Usage of the money should be done in respect of the chart.

(3) If any of the previous conditions is not respected. The Swiss authorities can step it and dissolve the entire thing or even take control.