From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:36:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfm+UBiy9b-RgiU4t7663nNSPYfuaoUcbLyHZn2z6Bx5BKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c902e01-27c2-8167-6024-2ff250ababee@ReliableID.com>
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It is probably fair to say it's harder than setting up an organized
church[*] or a Super PAC[**]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Perpetual_Exemption
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Super_PAC
P.S. For those not familiar with US tax code, politics, or comedy shows: a
Venn diagram intersecting all three would have at least the above two
examples.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:35 AM Wes Kussmaul <wes@reliableid.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/10/21 12:17 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:40:18PM -0800, Anthony Sorace wrote:
> >> More information can be found on our web site, http://p9f.org/.
> >>
> > "That effort stalled, mainly due to the treatment of software-focused
> > non-profit organizations under U.S. regulations at the time."
> >
> > What does this mean?
> >
> >
> Let me guess.
>
> In their ongoing effort to starve open source projects of resources,
> proprietary software vendors lobbied Congress to add special
> requirements for software projects filing IRS Form 1023?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-10 7:40 Anthony Sorace
2021-02-10 9:37 ` [9fans] " Anthony Martin
2021-02-10 12:02 ` [9fans] " tlaronde
2021-02-10 13:06 ` Don A. Bailey
2021-02-10 15:31 ` Anthony Sorace
2021-02-10 16:05 ` Steve Simon
2021-02-10 16:18 ` Marshall Conover
2021-02-10 17:09 ` Joseph Stewart
2021-02-10 17:17 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-10 17:33 ` Anthony Sorace
2021-02-10 18:23 ` hiro
2021-02-10 18:32 ` Anthony Sorace
2021-02-10 18:33 ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-02-10 18:39 ` Anthony Sorace
2021-02-10 20:36 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2021-02-10 20:57 ` Kim Shrier
2021-02-10 21:12 ` hiro
2021-02-10 21:12 ` pouya+lists.9fans
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