Richard, I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandate to resurrect OSHCA. Otherwise I feel that you're undermining our efforts. I don't understand why suddenly you're in such a hurry. Like many others, Tim Cook, Bhaskar etc had expressed earlier there can be chapters/branches etc formed later.
The discussions and sentiments expressed here will certainly be taken into consideration by the protem committee. I would like to appeal to you not to complicate the matter further otherwise your intentions may be misconstrued. Please let me complete my job and my responsibility to the community. I did not think that my intention to update the community with information would lead to a kind of upstaging the protem committee's efforts. If you proceed to register OSHCA it will be tantamount to acting in bad faith, as I had been negotiating with Brian on behalf of the community. Molly Richard Schilling wrote: >Since OSCHA is an internationl body we can register siultaneously, and >choose the base to be anywhere. > >Is the incorporation in Malaysia going to be doing business or just >representing FOSS industry interests? Depending on the answer to that >here are our choices here in the U.S. that I can pursue now: > >Trade association — Definition. > > trade associations don't "do business" but exist to exert > influence on a market. This seems to me the best fit for OSCHA > if the organization does not intend to own things like > copyrighted software. Gets around the international > intellectual property issues on software for OSCHA > as well. > > "Trade association," as that term is used here > means a membership organization of persons engaging in a similar > or related line of commerce, organized to promote and improve > business conditions in that line of commerce and not to engage > in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit > and for which no part of net earnings inures to the benefit of > any member. > > >Non-Profit Corporation - Definition. > > Non-Profit Corporations conduct business (e.g. provide products > and services) and can also have an influencing effect. > > A nonprofit corporation is an organization formed as a > corporation for purposes other than generating a profit, and in > which no part of the organization's income is distributed to its > directors or officers. Nonprofits are formed pursuant to state > law, often under the Revised Model Non-Profit Corporation Act > (1986). A nonprofit can be a church or church association, > school, charity, medical provider, legal aid society, volunteer > service organization, professional association, research > institute, museum, or in some cases a sports association. Being > formed with the state as a nonprofit corporation does not > automatically provide an organization with tax-exempt status. > Nonprofits must apply for tax-exempt status at the federal and > sometimes at the state level. > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/