Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:57:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> To: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, sthaug@nethelp.no, dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Fund Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304025525.265C-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com> In-Reply-To: <12876.888970239@dstc.edu.au>
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, George Michaelson wrote: > >So I suggest that current not-for-profit trustees be just that: trusted. >-to spend with discretion on relevant activity. If it benefits people who pay, >it should benefit everybody else as well or it doesn't meet tax-free >requirements. Spending $$$ to pay people to finish off significant work, or >to buy h/w to make it possible, thats cool. The wider benefit is plain. I think that we should remind people at this point that FreeBSD, while incorporated, is not incorporated as a 501 (c) 3 or not profit organization (least thats what I thought Jordan said when I asked a few weeks ago) and as such or donations will NOT be tax-free/deductable. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com <A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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