[HCoop-Discuss] Financial situation

[Nathan Kennedy]

rob at hcoop.net wrote:
> I will not pay any portion of this debt.  Please make note of that during
> my monthly contribution.  Many months ago I expressed my concerns with
> hcoop's financial situation in regards from switching away from Abu and
> Fyodor.  There needs to be some accountability here.
>   
It is not an option for individual members to pick and choose which 
co-op costs they are willing to pay for.  I understand that you may not 
like all the choices that have been made and how everything was handled, 
but there's no excuse for the attitude that you can pick in hindsight 
what expenses you want to pay for.  There's no co-op or business in the 
world that can stay solvent that way.

I guess you are proposing that we cancel the Peer1 project and have Adam 
or someone pay off all the charges for you (I think Adam making the 
offer to guarantee the back charges was a strategic mistake also), and I 
guess we should sell the multithousands of dollars of equipment that 
several of our members donated to the effort.

I would like to end this line of the discussion here and now.  I am open 
to any discussions about how we will handle the migration and billing, 
and to any criticism of performance so far, but the attitude that you 
are not going to go along with past decisions already made with co-op 
consensus is uncooperative and schismatic.  Everyone is going to get the 
benefit of the new infrastructure, and everyone is going to pay a share 
of it. I would say "their share of it," but that is not true given the 
significant donations of time, money, and equipment that have been 
made.  Even with the delay and back charges, members are getting a big 
bargain here.

Let's show a little more sense of ownership here.

-ntk