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Re: Tim O'Reilly
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 06:36:09 +0900
At 10:31 AM 6.2.95, ESTHER <ESTHER_+p_bmail_+a_EDV_+lESTHER+r%MHS+d_C5EBCE2F015387D wrote:
MHS: Source date is: 1-Jun-95 11:19 EDT Form: Memo Use OEM Field: true Text: (20 lines follow) As you may have noticed, he has closed the sale of most of his company to AOL. The time seems appropriate to pursue him as a board member with dispatch and vigor. So....if none of you object by Monday afternoon, I'd like to go ahead and ask if he'd like to join the board. Obviously, this offer can't be legally binding, but I'm sending this note to find out if I can make it at all (which would be morally binding). If he reacts with enormous enthusiasm, I will move ahead quickly -- which might include inviting him to the end-of-June meeting. I know the proper caveats: It will be messy, why show him our hole-y underwear, etc. etc. But all in all, we're trying to re-start EFF, not write its epitaph, and I'd like to have him involved from the start if he's going to be involved at all. I think he will be a strong contributor with the right missionary spirit, pragmatic energy, etc. etc. And maybe, with the link with AOL, he'll have reason to come to Wshington from time to time (athough he's selling his *company*, not him*self*). Bottom line: Okay if I go ahead? Speak now, ask questions now by all means, or forever hold your peace.
I go along with ob, 80% till people meet him at the Board meeting
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