Indeed. That’s the way it works.

Once you set up a Foundation, the Foundation itself becomes more important that the goal it was meant to achieve.

The logic lies in the idea that without the Foundation, the goal will be impossible to realize. Thus, guaranteeing the continued existence of the Foundation, becomes its own primary goal.

I’ve seen it once and again in the last ~25 years ( inside and outside the FOSS world ) … once a project creates a Foundation, it sings its own death certificate.

Foundations are probably the worst mean to an end in that regard.

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