On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:30, tanguy+fsfe@ortolo.eu said:
I can understand that, but I really doubt that the German law provides no way to have a viable assotiation with more than a handful of “members”, that term being understood as: people that pay a
Sure there is; there are lots of associations with hundreds of thousands members. It was a deliberate decision of most of the FSFE founders, that the current members shall have a close control over the acceptance of new members. This close control of membership was also one of the reasons why the FSF-France members split themselves of from the FSFE (despite that the seem to keep their membership also restricted to a few people).
Hopefully the FSFE can eventually turn itself into an equal membership association (like most associations are).
Salam-Shalom,
Werner