Please stop saying this is a "one man show", it's clearly not. HiFo was founded by Council for the community to handle items that the Council (and/or community) could not legally handle. Currently there are three Directors, myself being one of them, as well as a founder of the organization. This was a "one man show" for all of about 2 days.

Again, Rob != Foundation.

Yes... Because current Council and the technical team (which has done an outstanding job, btw) was able to talk Nokia into pointing their DNS at our servers. Make no mistake, Nokia still holds the keys. One of the primary points of HiFo is that we can be self-contained, so that if Nokia goes away (or changes it's mind later, or with a new CEO) we don't vanish.

The Foundation *is* needed by the community. It's needed to hold the legal rights that we should have already signed off on with Nokia. Those rights include things like being able to handle DNS (which also requires a legal entity).

It's also needed to handle a bank account, as banks don't generally open accounts for "that mob of people on the internet". Those funds will hopefully be used to fund future infrastructure hardware purchases, hosting costs, maybe coding competitions, or a number of other things important to, or needed by, the community.

HiFo is also needed as a front-end for businesses of any type to do work with us. That includes banks, hosting services, hardware vendors, other NFP groups looking to provide or exchange services (like our current host), and anyone wanting to do anything that may involve financial or legal commitments.

Could we do it without that? Sure, if we had someone willing to take on the entire burden of doing all this, in their own name. But then the community would be at the whim of that one person, which clearly is something you dislike right now (and others have disliked in the past).

HiFo is a tool. One which can be bound to hold rights and liabilities, and that can be governed by members selected by the community. HiFo is not "the enemy" any more than a backhoe is the enemy of a house. It can be used to build, maintain, or destroy, based on who's driving it. Don't blame the tool (or throw it away) because of the actions of current driver.