On Saturday 20 January 2007 14:04, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 01:19:47PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:19, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:01:36AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > > As for the irony of accepting grants from non-profits while > > > > refusing to create a non-profit for the project due to > > > > political beliefs, well, you best not point out the > > > > inconsistency... > > > > > > There's no inconsistency there, really. Recieving a monetary gift > > > doesn't change whether you get it from a non-profit or not, does > > > it? > > > > As I previously said, there are two camps with opposing political > > views. > > <snipped lots of stuff> > > I wasn't very clear. I meant there's little or no tax difference on > the recieving end as an individual. If a non-profit chooses to give > me a boatload of money, don't I pay taxes on it? There may have been > tax exemptions along the way *before* it got to me, but once it's > going into my account then the govt considers it taxable income. I > may be wrong, having never been in a position to take cash from a > non-profit. If I'm not wrong, then I don't see any conflict.
We've wandered way off track and I think I'm to blame for it. None the less, when a non-profit is collecting donations and giving grants to individuals, then the name of the non-profit organization makes no difference to the political view of "non-profits are damaging." If one is willing to accept grants from the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, yet is unwilling to create (or accept grants from) a non-profit "OpenBSD Foundation" due to a political view, then application of the political view is inconsistent. Also, it is probably more polite to call it an inconsistency than it is to call it a conflict. The project was desperate for the cash it needed to keep running and Mozilla offered a donation. -No one can fault Theo for accepting. JCR
