I trust you meant well, but these "corrections" seem to be one side of an argument.

First -
I copy below the part of the last council meeting where Matti Arias says funding will stop in 2012 and not to expect "any financial support" after 2012. Seems pretty clear to me and to X-Fade. Of course, we also have the 2/11 announcement and the "no future meego devices" announcement. For the sake of brevity, I will not go into all of the previous statements made to maemo council. Although it has been said funding will stop sometime in 2012, we can remain hopeful that there is a change of Nokia's plans to stop its support of Maemo/MeeGo after the N9.

[11:45] <SD69> is it feasible to continue t.m.o. on a reduced budget?
[11:46] <SD69> lose Akamai, accept slower speeds, etc?
[11:46] <mairas> SD69: after 2012, you mean?
[11:46] <X-Fade> SD69: t.m.o. is one server, owned by reggie.
[11:46] <SD69> I mean after 2012
[11:47] <mairas> SD69: you shouldn't expect any financial support from Nokia after 2012 :-(
[11:48] <SD69> yes - I am thinking of a reduced community budget
[11:48] <X-Fade> SD69: Expect none, really.
[11:48] <X-Fade> SD69: By that time we need to either come up with funding ourselves or shut thing down.
[11:49] <SD69> X-Fade: exactly
[11:49] <mairas> again, the amount of traffic is likely to be quite low by then so it should be perfectly realistic for community to purchase the server bandwidth themselves

Second -
No one has decided a referendum passed by the community is not binding. Council has not yet addressed the issue. And even if it does, I would think it obvious that a decision by the Council that a community passed referendum is not binding on it would present governance problems.

Furthermore, as I already made clear, the referendum merely authorizes the Council to change the structure of maemo.org and does not direct any particular change. So there is no longer a conflict in the instance of this referendum.

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