Editing History of BeWelcome (section)

=== Is HC [[Veit Kuehne|Veit Kühne´s]] thing? ===

The underlying idea of HCvol is the question whether the [[Hospitality Club]] was [[Veit Kuehne|`Veit Kühne´s´]] thing'. The conclusion that [[Hospitality Club]] was rather the volunteers' thing, if not the members' thing, was quite obvious. Consequently the [[Hospitality Club]] should be owned by a legal non-profit organization composed of the ones who build [[Hospitality Club]] everyday: the volunteers. It is true that Veit invented the [[Hospitality Club]] and there is no denying of him having done enormously great things for it. But great inventions transcend their inventor... 

The mere thought of all the volunteer work being used in the future for one man's interest was unbearable for the founders of HCvol. Trusting [[Veit Kuehne|Veit Kühne]] was not enough. Building a future for HC was ensuring that the possibility of [[Hospitality Club]] being sold or used in a commercial way could never come true. This seemed more important than improving HC website or accepting more members.