From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 23:54:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17974 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (207-172-239-115.s51.as2.rkv.erols.com [207.172.239.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17925; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:54:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA03182; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:57:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.ChrisBowman.com: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:57:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" To: George Michaelson cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Tom , Mike Smith , sthaug@nethelp.no, dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Fund In-Reply-To: <12876.888970239@dstc.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 My home page To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message