On 3 April 2012 15:57, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/3/12 2:53 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> >> Somehow other distro's have manage to find a way to fund themselves >> perhaps we can adopt some of their model and implement it either >> officially or unofficially... > > > I suggest a long and depressing read of American tax law. > Actually not just American tax law. European tax law (both EU and national/provincial/etc), International trademark law (again US, EU, and local ones), and various other corporation and non profit laws. Basically you have to spend more time dealing with teams of lawyers than you do coding.. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel