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Gentoo Officially Not-For-Profit
iswm writes "The paperwork for the Gentoo Not-For-Profit entity was approved by the State of New Mexico today. This means that as of today, the Gentoo Foundation is an official Not-For-Profit Corporation in the United States. The process of becoming a Federally-recognized not-for-profit entity, which will take about six months for approval, can now begin."
Who exactly was pressuring them to make money? Is there a group of men in black suits who go around to all the businesses and demand profits from them? Do these high-profile execs and shareholders just suddenly appear out of nowhere and take over all businesses that aren't NFP?
Sounds like an excuse to avoid taxes to me. Taxes that also go into things like medicade, building schools, roads, etc. But hey, yet another Linux distro, the United Way or various other charitable organizations, they seem pretty interchangable.
Although they don't have the status yet, anyone who donates to gentoo and takes it off their taxes should be ashamed of themselves. There's lots of kids with cancer out there who could use it more.