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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