Re: Tim O'Reilly

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

At 10:31 AM 6.2.95, ESTHER
<ESTHER_+p_bmail_+a_EDV_+lESTHER+r%MHS+d_C5EBCE2F015387D wrote:
>MHS:   Source date is:     1-Jun-95 11:19 EDT
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>As you may have noticed, he has closed the sale of most of his company to AOL.
>The time seems appropriate to pursue him as a board member with dispatch and
>vigor.  So....if none of you object by Monday afternoon, I'd like to go ahead
>and ask if he'd like to join the board.  Obviously, this offer can't be legally
>binding, but I'm sending this note to find out if I can make it at all (which
>would be morally binding).  If he reacts with enormous enthusiasm, I will move
>ahead quickly -- which might include inviting him to the end-of-June meeting.
>
>I know the proper caveats: It will be messy, why show him our hole-y underwear,
>etc. etc.  But all in all, we're trying to re-start EFF, not write its epitaph,
>and I'd like to have him involved from the start if he's going to be involved
>at all.  I think he will be a strong contributor with the right missionary
>spirit, pragmatic energy, etc. etc.  And maybe, with the link with AOL, he'll
>have reason to come to Wshington from time to time (athough he's selling his
>*company*, not him*self*).
>
>Bottom line:  Okay if I go ahead?  Speak now, ask questions now by all means,
>or forever hold your peace.


I go along with ob, 80% till people meet him  at the Board  meeting