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Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:29:30 GMT
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Terry K wrote:

> 
> Jeremy beat me to it with the definition.
>  I don't have a strong objection to "Foundation", but to me it has connotations
> of a funded organization that contributes monies to various causes.  Heck, just
> read the definition.
> That somehow, to me at least, does not seem to reflect what we are doing.  And
> even might be a little misleading.  An outsider hearing of the "LDraw
> Foundation" could well get a wrong impression of what it is.  Foundations are
> what support programming on PBS.  And send deserving students to college.  And
> underwrite environmental research expedetions to Amazon rainforests.
> 
> It just does not ring true.

On the other hand, "The Foundation" at Cal Poly is the main controlling agency
on campus.  People tend to say "Foundation" with a very negative tone, mainly
due to thier ridiculusly anal procedures and policies; despite the fact that
they pay most people's paychecks.  Perhaps "The LDraw Foundation" fits somewhere
in between.
--
Patrick Sayre-Little             | "Someday we'll look back on all this
wsayreli@polymail.calpoly.edu    |  and we'll run into a parked car."
http://www.calpoly.edu/~wsayreli | -anonymous



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(...) Hmm... it sounds like you are subtly insulting us. :-) -- Terry K -- Overlord, Office of Ridiculously Anal Procedures. (27 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) Jeremy beat me to it with the definition. I don't have a strong objection to "Foundation", but to me it has connotations of a funded organization that contributes monies to various causes. Heck, just read the definition. That somehow, to me at (...) (27 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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