If you have to do something underhanded like "A management catch was that it could not appear to be a donation and it had to be for something we had notionally received in the current financial year" then you're going to run into trouble.
My guess? Your company wanted some good publicity but couldn't figure out a way to satisfy its own beancounters.
The fault lies with your company, not the open source projects who refuse to fudge things to make the numbers easier for your beancounters to digest.
It's newsworthy on slashdot because a nerdy site was involved. And I think that an organization responsible for a pervasive technical standard qualifies as nerdy.
Not to mention that you would *personally* owe income taxes on that brand new salary of yours even if the organization got away with paying it to you in the first place.
Also, arranging to have the organization pay you such an obscene salary just so you could skim off a donation would probably be malfeasance on your part against the organization, and is tantamount to embezzling.
I would rather have a true democracy where we the smelly common people could decide for ourselves who should rule us, and that includes changing our minds if the people we pick turn out to be stinkers in disguise.
The whole point of the government is to serve the public. Government ministers are in fact often called public servants. Shouldn't the public get to decide who best serves its interests?
They should treat infected computers the same way they treat infected people.
With quarantines.
If you've got some sort of disease, the health police get to confine you. Even if it's not your fault you got sick, because the quarantine is to protect the public, which is why your freedom to go as you please is subordinate to the public's freedom not to catch your germs.
They should treat infected computers the same way. It doesn't matter if it's your fault it got infected or not. If your computer is putting the internet at risk, it should be quarantined. I don't care if the user of the computer is inconvenienced or if it's not his fault. He is harming the internet just the same.
If you defiantly refuse to care or fix it, you should be hit even harder, because at that point you're effectively aiding and abetting whatever criminal activity the hacker is using your computer for.
If I was an ISP and a customer failed to have their computer cleaned up after I warned them, I would terminate their access for abuse. Once they know and refuse to take care of it, they are complicit.
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Not surprised.
If you have to do something underhanded like "A management catch was that it could not appear to be a donation and it had to be for something we had notionally received in the current financial year" then you're going to run into trouble.
My guess? Your company wanted some good publicity but couldn't figure out a way to satisfy its own beancounters.
The fault lies with your company, not the open source projects who refuse to fudge things to make the numbers easier for your beancounters to digest.
I was actually talking about the IRS itself, not X.org's accountants.
It's newsworthy on slashdot because a nerdy site was involved. And I think that an organization responsible for a pervasive technical standard qualifies as nerdy.
At least the IRS is reasonable in allowing foreign taxes to count against domestic taxes.
Not to mention that you would *personally* owe income taxes on that brand new salary of yours even if the organization got away with paying it to you in the first place.
Also, arranging to have the organization pay you such an obscene salary just so you could skim off a donation would probably be malfeasance on your part against the organization, and is tantamount to embezzling.
Which is why all fines collected by an agency of the government should be deposited in the general fund.
However, given that the IRS is a child agency of the treasury itself a conflict of interest might be unavoidable.
The whole point of being non profit is that you don't OWE taxes in the first place.
Paperwork fees, sure. But not taxes.
It could also be corporate lapdogging, considering that open source in general is an unwelcome thorn in the corporate side.
You suspect sabotage?
Harder than it looks.
The Gentoo Foundation ran into the same kind of trouble don't forget.
The IRS is just another TLA lapdog of the powers that be.
The powers that be are lovers of proprietary software, and see open source as "unfair competition"
I'm therefore not surprised that they're using dirty tricks
Antiquated but effective nonetheless. Underground is exactly where it belongs anyway.
If we had a true democracy, then corporate cronies wouldn't be putting us in debt in the first place.
The US is NOT a democracy. It's a corporate oligarchy.
I would rather have a true democracy where we the smelly common people could decide for ourselves who should rule us, and that includes changing our minds if the people we pick turn out to be stinkers in disguise.
The whole point of the government is to serve the public. Government ministers are in fact often called public servants. Shouldn't the public get to decide who best serves its interests?
They should treat infected computers the same way they treat infected people.
With quarantines.
If you've got some sort of disease, the health police get to confine you. Even if it's not your fault you got sick, because the quarantine is to protect the public, which is why your freedom to go as you please is subordinate to the public's freedom not to catch your germs.
They should treat infected computers the same way. It doesn't matter if it's your fault it got infected or not. If your computer is putting the internet at risk, it should be quarantined. I don't care if the user of the computer is inconvenienced or if it's not his fault. He is harming the internet just the same.
If you defiantly refuse to care or fix it, you should be hit even harder, because at that point you're effectively aiding and abetting whatever criminal activity the hacker is using your computer for.
If I was an ISP and a customer failed to have their computer cleaned up after I warned them, I would terminate their access for abuse. Once they know and refuse to take care of it, they are complicit.
If I was the state department I would be furious about this.
Short of a direct attack on a diplomat I don't think there is a worse breach of international custom and law.
Snooping on citizens is bad enough, but this is playing with fire.
Some things are supposed to fail, just like others are supposed to succeed.
If you break because you're relying on undefined behavior, then you have voided the warranty.
FNORD
I've never heard of a virus entering into a contract but I'm sure a nasty EULA would do it more damage than it could do you.
In this case, crappy coffee IS the real thing.
For starters how about violating our civil rights under the color of law?
The DoJ prosecutes crooked cops all the time.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Hosted on WHITEHOUSE .gov of all places. Don't make me laugh.
If he hadn't sold his soul to those interests he never would have made it past the primaries.
Refusal to pay wages would certainly count as constructive dismissal.