Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to get a bank account, you need a constitution. While people > like MJ Ray like bureaucratic bondage[0], it was felt by everyone else > that the best constitution would be the simplest possible.
The above paragraph contains untruths: 1. there are many ways to get UK accounts without constitutions; 2. I hate "bureaucratic bondage" and particularly dislike the DUS attempt to tie in all UK-resident DDs ignoring any consent. [...] > There are complicated rules for being a "Charity" in the UK; in > particular it would prevent the Debian-UK Society from buying beer after > the expos. It also vastly increases the amount of work required to run > it. That's why a "Society" model was chosen instead. "Society" and "Charity" are not disjoint. This illustrates the lack of understanding apparent, which is one reason I think this business should not trade as "Debian-UK". There is law for "Society" models too but the DUS official approach seems to be "LaLaLa we're not listening" like in http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/debian-uk/2005-August/010525.html Have we seen enough organisations come a cropper with the I-can't-see-the-law-so-it-won't-see-me "ravenous bugblatter defence" that we don't want a repeat performance? -- MJ Ray (slef) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]