XSF Discussion - 2022-09-22

Re: > An applicant for membership may not be admitted if, at the time of application or consideration, fifteen percent (15%) of the Members of the Corporation are employed by or represent the same corporation or organization as that corporation or organization which employs the applicant or is represented by the applicant.

Someone just asked me if alphabet llc, google search llc, google ads llc, project loon llc, all count as different "corporations or organizations" ?

I guess legally they are different corporations right? Who decides here? Is it secretary or?

it's difficult™ probably

luckily, we can be rather certain that google has lost interest in xmpp anyway

True. But nowdays everything is consolidating. Just look at the gaming industry. So i think the question is very much relevant

I suppose that would be denied for all the different alphabet company's and the lawsuit would settle it then.. In theory.

moparisthebest: the holding company usually has decisional powers over subsidiaries.

In this case Alphabet Inc./LLC. whatever it changed to now.

"De Facto"

If we ever get into this situation, then probably we'll indeed look at the umbrella and its subsidiaries.

moparisthebest: are we approaching this limit for any entity now?

Pie graph time?

ralphm: not that I know of, this was purely a theoretical "how do our bylaws handle 'legally different' corporations that are clearly one corporation?"

As with all kinds of ambiguity, we'd deal with it when needed. Using common sense and/or rough consensus. Running a corporation is not like running code. And bylaws are usually not an exhaustive set of rules.

Good answer, thank you