melodrama at CentOS?
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Mon Aug 3 10:42:27 EDT 2009
[Ben gently reminded me I forgot to hit 'reply-all']
On 07/30/2009 06:01 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> Is CentOS incorporated? If not, there is no write-off.
Hrm? I mean they probably can't expect to ever recover it.
> It's just
> that all their benefactors who gave them money will now be very
> concerned that their money went into somebody's pocket. Lawsuits may
> follow.
If somebody took the donations and did something else with them, that
would be fraud. Without a formal org, it's probably not embezzlement.
> Future donations may be less likely.
yes, without structure to prevent abuse. Given structure, perhaps more.
There's talk of a foundation.
> If they were depending
> on PayPal funds to keep servers running, operations may be impacted.
They're not. They wanted to take the funds and do some marketing.
Servers and bandwidth are donated. Labor is volunteered.
-Bill
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