On 4 April 2012 07:31, Jared K. Smith <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:23 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now, for the ugly part. One of the many complications is that if a US > non-profit receives the majority of its funding and support from a > single corporate entity, that the non-profit begins to look like a tax > shelter, and at least under US law, that causes more headaches than it > is worth. I'm sure there are other complications as well, but that's > the most obvious one to me. It is not just US law. Most countries have similar rules in place for non-profits due a long history of them being used as fronts for governments and corporations for tax-dodging, espionage, bribery, and other shenanigans. In this case the US laws matter because Red Hat is based in the US.. but the same issues would come up in the EU or similar places. -- 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
