On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:19, bofh wrote: > Actually I think you're mistaken. IIRC, theo's biggest beef about > non-profits is that it is too much trouble, and he would rather be > coding than handling non-profit related paperwork. > > As a user, I actually think setting up something like a google > sponsored link would be good - they already know how to send money to > Theo. I'd certainly set up all my browsers to whatever link that is > created. > > I've actually been contemplating setting up a non-profit. If there's > any accountants with experience would be willing to talk to me, I'd > appreciate it.
Though I'm no longer involved, I help to found a successful non-profit that exists for the sake of giving grants to terminally ill leukemia patients. I even spent two years on it's board of directors as well as having the tough job of meeting candidates to deliver checks... -all but one of the people I met are now dead. A few years ago I offered to set up and run a non-profit for OpenBSD here in the US. No different than Mozilla, the non-profit would make grants to individual developers and pay for needed hackathon resources. Since I'm here in the Silicon Valley, it would make getting hardware donations from companies a whole lot easier. Theo declined because of his political beliefs. He would prefer see people in the US have adequate health care through taxation rather than encourage tax avoidance through non-profits. If you don't believe me, then ask him yourself when he gets home in a few weeks. If on your own, you set up a non-profit for OpenBSD, Theo will rightfully be livid with you. There is no requirement to agree with Theo on everything but we are all required to at least respect, if not try understanding, our differences of opinion. If Theo doesn't want an OpenBSD non-profit because he would rather see US tax money going to build bombs and invade other countries, well that is his prerogative. If Theo doesn't want an OpenBSD non-profit because the little green men said it was a bad idea, then that is his prerogative. If Theo doesn't want an OpenBSD non-profit because he would rather see all people have adequate health care, again that is his prerogative. On the other hand, if you think you can (ab)use OpenBSD including Theo's name, reputation and years of hard work without his permission to promote *your* non-profit, you will only succeed at making a lot of enemies, including me. JCR
