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X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status

Posted by timothy on from the swimming-in-the-fine-print dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The X.Org Foundation, which drives the X.Org Server projects, Mesa, and Wayland open-source programs, had its tax-exempt status revoked by the IRS. It turns out the X.Org Foundation had put in quite a lot of work to become a non-profit organization, with guidance from the Software Freedom Law Center. They got in trouble after failing to routinely file their taxes on time. There's also been a host of other X.Org accounting errors in recent years. There was also the recent news of the IRS going after open-source projects, too."

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  1. No one to blame but themselves by barlevg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously. How hard is it to file your taxes on time? Or to hire someone to do it for you?