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KDE League .... Inc. No Longer?
An anonymous reader writes "The corporate status of the KDE League, Inc., was revoked earlier this year by the Delaware Secretary of State when it failed to file necessary papers and pay fees, according to this report in Linux and Main. In addition, the organization seems to have overlooked financial disclosures that are supposed to be made public under federal law. And asked about it, the KDE League's chairman, Andreas Pour, refused to comment." Update: You can read a statement from Andreas here that explains what's going on. Thanks to Thomas Zander for the update.
Looks like they should have gone with a Nevada LLC. No Federal disclosures needed, and no Fed tax. Hah!
Why don't they register as a German Verein? Like KDE e.V.? I think that would cause less trouble with bureaucracy.
Posted on the kde-core-devel list:
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I think it clears everything up. The kde-league is *not* dead. The website, linuxandmain, just seemed to have jumped the gun a bit before getting a serious comment from Andreas Pour.
And life and KDE goes on..
List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: What has happened to the KDE League?
From: Andreas Pour
Date: 2002-10-05 7:34:38
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Shawn Gordon wrote:
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> http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News
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> Is this true?
Parts of it. As to the dissolution issue, that is something that needs to be
straightened out with the League's lawyers, who are supposed to be handling
this, undoubtedly some clerical mix-up. However, as dep wrote to me in a
private e-mail (so he knows this), and as is the case, this is easily remedied
and virtually inconsequential.
As to the supposed IRS from, since theKompany.com was briefly a member, you
should know that the League is not a non-profit but rather a not-for-profit and
hence need not file the forms.
As to the website, it's hosted on a server that experienced hardware failure and
should be back up early next week.
As to the finances, that is not something for me to disclose. The League as a
corporation cannot release its financial statements without approval of the
members, and that approval has not occurred. That came out in the threads which
were selectively quoted, IIRC, but the piece seems to be just another malicious
KDE attack by a website well versed in those matters.
> If it is true then the League is beyond a colossal failure,
It certainly is not.
> it is also engaging in illegal activity.
Sorry?
> KDE really needs to get some
> spokes people together and have something in place to handle this kind of
> fall out. I wonder if this post will even make it through Dre's filters on me.
What filter?
Ciao,
Dre
I think you mean no STATE tax. I'm pretty sure it is not within an individual State's rights to waive Federal Taxes. And just in case you are simply talking about the flow-through of cash to the principals (who do not need to be disclosed in an LLC), you still must pay individual taxes on the income.
Uncle Sam's got his hands in everyone's pocket. Don't think you can escape.... At least not forever!
The discussion.
I don't support th killing of innocent people by either terrorists from Israel or Palestine (look up a dictionary definition of the word and tell me there aren't groups on both sides that qualify). But it annoys the shit out of me that everyone who questions Israel is labelled as a racist. Locally, in Australia, the `Anti Defamation League' labelled the Wesley Mission as anti semites because they expressed sympathy with the Palestinians during a prayer around the beginning of the recent incursions. I'm sure I'd be labelled the same by saying any nation that publically supports torture disgusts me.