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Their wordsThere is nothing about a foundation that is inherently good, neutral, or charitable, simply because they have a 501(c) status.
Their wordsRather, I think that “the foundation”, as a single point of failure, is structurally at odds with the idea of “the project”, which is inherently distributed.
Their wordsOn the other hand, by avoiding foundations, projects also avoid the question of how to formalize their governance, thus risking a “tyranny of structurelessness” that might range from projects living inside a company forever, to disorganized chaos that negatively impacts project velocity.