From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 10 16:09:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA15871 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA15858 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) with ESMTP id RAA20173; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:46:53 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA11729; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:09:39 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199606102309.RAA11729@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: -Stable, credit card donations to FreeBSD, Inc. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:09:39 -0600 (MDT) Cc: terryl@ienet.com, angio@aros.net, davidg@Root.COM, stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <21137.834447620@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 10, 96 04:00:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does the additional bookkeeping headache also apply to credit cards, or is that out of the ballpark in general? Obviously, W.C. or whomever was providing the credit card service would get a bit of the money to pay for their effort, but I still believe it would increase the donation volume considerably. Lo and behold, Jordan K. Hubbard once said: > > > Also, there was mention of non-profit status. I think it would be time and > > money well spent to make it so that contributions were tax deductible. This > > would prove to be a major incentive for corporations like us to contribute > > funds, and more funds. > > Just to clarify this once more: If there were enough money coming in > to offset the headache of the additional bookkeeping, I'd do it (and > if I do, anyone who's donated in the last 24 months can get a > back-dated tax donation credit - I checked this out). However, we > need to get over the threshold first! :-) > > Jordan > -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."