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Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by maxbond on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:09AM (#33851356)
They may resolve these issues, but that doesn't improve your bus number. There's no guarantee they will, how long it will take, and whether the money will be there; this doesn't address the root problem. If you did all of that and then carried on in the same manner, you'd run into a similar problem eventually.

There's certainly things I find suspicious about this CEOs actions, I won't deny that. I'm still not going to contact law enforcement about strangers on the Internet.

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Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by sangnoir on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:23AM (#33851411)
> They may resolve these issues, but that doesn't improve your bus number

You're conflating negligence/dereliction of duty and bus-factor-of-one here, while Fosshost suffers from both, they are not the same thing.

Regulators can absolutely solve the former, but not the latter. The volunteers can solve the latter, but only after the former is resolved. I don't see why you assume why a new CEO would resist relinquishing all treasury duties.

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Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by maxbond on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:31AM (#33851447)
> You're conflating negligence/dereliction of duty and bus-factor-of-one here, while Fosshost suffers from both, they are not the same thing.

I appreciate the distinction, but they're certainly related. We can see that because we can achieve the same result with a bus accident as with dereliction, and that addressing the dereliction without addressing the bus factor will result in a repeat of the problem.

> I don't see why you assume why a new CEO would resist relinquishing all treasury duties.

I don't, that was a thought experiment to illustrate the point that addressing the dereliction does not address the root cause.

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