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Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:45:49 GMT
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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:29:30 GMT, Patrick Sayre-Little
<wsayreli@polymail.calpoly.edu> wrote:
> Terry K wrote:
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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 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.
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> 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.
Hmm... it sounds like you are subtly insulting us. :-)
-- Terry K --
Overlord, Office of Ridiculously Anal Procedures.
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