From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 11:41:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkavian.org (malkavian.org [206.136.132.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A489037B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Received: (from rbw@localhost) by malkavian.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5DIegx03901; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:40:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:40:42 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" To: Linh Pham Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the state of the FreeBSD Foundation? Message-ID: <20010613114042.C1329@malkavian.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linh Pham , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010613111847.B1329@malkavian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@closedsrc.org on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:13:14AM -0700 X-URL: http://rbw.myplace.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:13:14AM -0700, Linh Pham wrote: > On 2001-06-13, brian j. peterson scribbled: > > # the main reason i ask is that i would like to donate money to help the > # FreeBSD project, and, based on what i have read, i could get a tax- > # deduction out of the deal if i could donate to the FreeBSD Foundation. > # unfortunately, i can find no information about HOW to make a donation. > > Information about donations to the FreeBSD Project can be found here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib-how.html > > According to section 20.2.5.1, it seems like you cannot do a tax > write-off just because you donated money to FreeBSD (since they aren't a > 501(c)(3) chartiable organization). > > Instead, you should think about donating money to FreeBSD to help > further the project and allow the group to allocate more resources to > improve the software and anything within the FreeBSD project as much as > possible. > > You can send money to the address provided in the URL above or through > FreeBSDMall.com according to jkh (see http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=594159+0+current/freebsd-stable), both the bank account and FreeBSD, Inc. have been shut down. any donations made with the information in 20.2.5.1 will simply be bounced back to the donor. (also note that jkh has said he will be updating the page from the handbook.) anyway, about the tax write-off bit, i am happy to donate money to FreeBSD regardless of tax-deductibility, but, given the choice between making a taxed donation or a tax-deductible donation (right now it isn't a choice because there appear to be zero ways to donate), i would certainly choose the latter... and i'm sure many other people would too. -brian -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message