[sane-devel] Should we sign EFF objection letter to sale of .org domain

Olaf Meeuwissen paddy-hack at member.fsf.org
Thu Dec 5 12:38:09 GMT 2019


Hi list,

Apologies for the re-send but the previous mail went out with a half
finished subject :-/

That notwithstanding, the issue I created has 11 thumbs up and 0 down as
of writing :-)

Olaf Meeuwissen writes:

> Hi list,
>
> I've just heard of the intent to sell the .org domain registry to a
> private equity firm.  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put
> out a call for action[1] and I've already add my own name to the list of
> signatories.
>
> If you oppose this move, please consider signing in a personal capacity,
> like I already did.
>
>  [1]: https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to-a-private-equity-firm
>
> The SANE Project itself is an affected organization to because we use
> the sane-project.org domain.  I've submitted an issue[2] to poll the
> project members on whether we should add the SANE Project to the list or
> not.  Even if you're not a project member, you can express your approval
> or disapproval via the thumbs up/down
>
>  [2]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/ops/issues/29

Hope this helps,
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