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

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @01:24AM 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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First they came for the Tea Party by Gothmolly · 2013-08-27 01:40 · Score: 1, Redundant

And I didn't say anything, because I'm a liberal.
But now they're going after Open Source ? Color me outraged. ...oh wait, it doesnt matter since I already sold my freedom for security

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