<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 7 Mar 2010, at 07:13, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><br>On 3/7/10 1:09 AM, "keith" <<a href="mailto:keith_hodges@yahoo.co.uk">keith_hodges@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">So Edgar,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">now you feel need a board seat in order to move forward your<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">particular technical ideas?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Keith<br></blockquote><br>If you Keith was in the Board , maybe they don't throw away your valuable<br>work ?<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div>May be the board is supposed to work in consultation with its members and the people it represents.</div><div><br></div><div>The fact that you feel a need for "political power" in order to protect your technical wares indicates to me that the board is failing in its role.</div><div><br></div><div>So now it seems we have an elected release team, and the board concept has fallen to the wayside.</div><div><br></div><div>Keith</div></body></html>