Charles Hoskinson responded to this Forum post in a twitter space today.
Here is a quote from his response:
In the forum post that the foundation (CF) posted today they said: Well we were established in 2016 in Switzerland. Well who did that? It was Michael Parsons who did that, who was deposed for trying to embezzle funds from the Cardano Foundation. Only after the community came together with the Guardians of Cardano and people actually made a statement about it and Parsons decided to go.
Well what happened next? That wasn’t address in their forum post.
Input Output and Emurgo got together and we were the majority of the board. We came in for a period of time, Tam Hasson, Niko Aquillos, Mahmeet Sing where board members. And they said, you know, Switzerland is not fit for purpose for a members based organisation; Which was always the intent of the Cardano Foundation. Anyone tells you otherwise is lying. It was always the intent that this (CF) be a community owned, operated, and controlled organisation.
So we tried to move it (CF). And when we tried to move it, the administrator was appointed by the Swiss Government, and they liquidated the board. They got rid of all of our people and they put in 4 people who have no connection to the Cardano ecosystem.
And they said in their forum post today that they have no intention of allowing people to be voted in because that is not allowed under the structure of Switzerland. Well no shit Sherlock, we are aware of that. So why not simply move the foundation to another location? They seem to be enamored with the Middle-East. They have the DLT foundation laws in Abu Dahbi which would allow them to be members based. We have already shown how to do that with an organisation in Wyoming. They can certainly move anywhere in the world and move the assets, and start over and have a members based organisation. They (CF) choose not to do this.
Then later in the twitter space he said:
For 10 years I have been telling people again, and again, and again: Cardano is going to be a decentralised protocol led by the bottom up. Led by the community as a whole. 10 years I have been saying this. That is the intent. That is the goal. Watch my TED talk in 2014. And, I have been very consistent throughout this entire process. I believe in all of you. I believe all of you have the right to lead. And I believe the time is now for you to lead.