My understanding is that part of the problem would be the CCRA's restrictions on what percentage of funds that a charitable organization can spend on advocacy as opposed to "charitable works". Setting up a computer lab in a school using free software might be a "charitable work" but in general advocating the use of free software over proprietary software would not generally be considered charitable. I am no tax expert but this is sort of my understanding.
Perhaps if the FSF is hung up on the charitable status of an organization it might be better to just call it something different...like the "Free Software Movement Canada" or something like that. Don't call it FSF and have some sort of "loose" affiliation with them. Cheers, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fran�cois Gagnon wrote: > I think you have a point : Basically, we don't need an organization > itself, but we need the action. We need to attract people and create > links between them. Even if we became a Canadian advisory council to the FSF, this would be a major step forward from what we have currently. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition! http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/ "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or portable media player from my cold dead hands!" _______________________________________________ fsfc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfc-discuss -- Bob Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ve3sre.com _______________________________________________ fsfc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfc-discuss
