On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:41:14AM +0200 or thereabouts, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > All in all, it's not a must, but I think everyone who wants to donate > something would be glad if (s)he would know what happens with the > money.
This was covered recently (sorry about line wrapping) Master Thread: http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C20030626032450.GA15746%40force.stwing.upenn.edu%3E Key Posts: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/38206 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/38231 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/38280 Key Points: Gentoo is working actively towards becoming a Not For Profit (NFP) corporation. This is one of the stated goals (on the front page) of store.gentoo.org -- to help raise money to pay the legal fees to become a NFP. Gentoo is not profitable. Despite the fact that we're currently registered as a "for profit" company, we don't make any money. Were it not for donations, both of cash as well as bandwidth, hardware, mirrors, etc. Gentoo *would not be possible*. gentoo.oregonstate.edu alone transfers ~400GB - 600GB of data *per day*. That's 36Mbps of average utilization or most of a DS-3 connection. Anyone who has ever priced a DS-3 before knows that they're not cheap. So, despite what the tax man thinks about Gentoo, we very much operate just like a "real" NFP company does. As soon as we get enough money together, we'll make the change official. If you want to help, send a donation and note on it that you want the money to be used expressly for converting Gentoo to a NFP corp. (the last link that I posted above states that you can do just that) --kurt
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