[SM-Discuss] Non-profit org or not

Jaka Kranjc smgl at lynxlynx.info
Fri Mar 13 06:39:17 EDT 2009


On Friday 13 of March 2009 11:05:27 flux wrote:
> There is one thing that makes me suspicious:
>
> "The Conservancy does not currently charge its member projects any
> fees."
>
> It sounds like they are reserving the right to charge fees later, once
> they get enough member projects that they aren't worried about
> disappearing, for "administrative costs" (non-profit, but profit, if you
> follow :-P). Sure I'm probably being paranoid and conspiracy theorist,
> but if they didn't want to keep that as an option why mention
> "currently"?
"... on behalf of its members, who are, of course, always free to join and 
leave the Conservancy at any time."

Is that profit-nonprofit idea legally possible at all?

LP
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