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Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?
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"Nikolas Britton" <gmail.com!nikolas.britton@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:

> Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the
> sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible
> expense.

For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as
deductible as "contributions"?  Hire someone qualified as your
own full- or part-time employee, and assign them to work on the
projects that you want to support.  As just one example, that's
effectively Red Hat's entire operation AFAIK.