Re: [ga] What makes a corporation?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Bill and all,

  One method that does work is real competition!  >;)

William S. Lovell wrote:

> Roeland Meyer wrote:
>
> > It certainly appears that way Ollie...
>
> You may be right, Stan. If that were the case, corrective measures
> would be required.  Among the responses (not necessarilty to me,
> but back and forth between others), I find the spectre of the large
> corporation having huge voting power, since they sell votes and
> they can pile up endlessly. (It is only in this kind of weird Internet
> context that the selling of votes, with prices listed, is announced to
> the world.)  So the next question is, what good are they? Is it not
> the BoD that ultimately makes the decisions on various things? I
> have seen nothing that would legally bind the BoD to do anything
> -- except as some have pointed out, abide by the Bylaws and
> have a DNSO.  But where does it say that those things on which the
> DNSO speaks out, presumably on the basis of what its various
> constituencies have voted to do, must be followed by the BoD?
> And if the BoD does its own thing regardless, what recourse is
> there?  I can think of a few, but would like to be educated as to
> what viable options really exist.  (One suggestion I saw a few
> days ago, that everyone boycott so that the DNSO disappears,
> I don't see as viable.)
>
> Bill Lovell
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William S. Lovell [mailto:wsl@cerebalaw.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 7:19 PM
> >
> > The issue, of course, is whether the present structure is such that
> > "constituencies"
> > are simply ghost-like wraiths that ineffectively float about the real
> > action; there is no
> > actual need for any constituency for dominating TM owners because the system
> > is
> > already locked in to their advantage. Is that what we have here?
> > Bill Lovell
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