From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 16 17:17:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBF337B417 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C74BD08; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10383; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:17:31 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0H1K3F06677; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Terry Lambert Cc: FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: FreeBSDmall vs Daemonnews mall References: <3C459893.44485DA3@emailrob.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020116085240.01c9e3e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020116102625.01e4f880@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020116113905.01ccea60@localhost> <3C45DAF7.71E1B794@emailrob.com> <3C45E84A.1BCB4F09@mindspring.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 16 Jan 2002 17:20:03 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3C45E84A.1BCB4F09@mindspring.com> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > I think that the safest arrangement would be an independent > business organization, which *chose* to donate all profits > that it could, to the FreeBSD Foundation. That probably wouldn't be much "safer" because it's donation would be no different than Foundation Gift Shop income or the big gift from Steve Jobs (ha) as none of these would fall into the less-than-four- per-cent category, upon which the non-profit status largely depends. But, one could hope that CD sales wouldn't bring in much money, so it would count as one of the small-potatoes contributions. :-) > In any case, it's unlikely that you will see a distribution by > the FreeBSD Foundation, IMO, unless it is a one-off sent out > to universities and high schools, in furtherance of the FreeBSD > Foundation charter. In any case, it would not be "for profit", > since it could not be. NPOs may make profits -- just not too much profit to keep Uncle Sam happy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message