Re: [CentOS] CentOS Donations - Is Money a Curse?

2011-02-20 Thread cornel panceac
2011/2/20 Sean s...@orcon.net.nz James B. Byrne wrote: But, our future financial support for CentOS is contingent upon dealing with an independent legal entity that conforms with national and international tax laws and corporate reporting requirements. A new model (appropriate to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Donations - Is Money a Curse?

2011-02-20 Thread Sean
cornel panceac wrote: in (my) ideal world. money are not necessary. you give me centos, i give you electricity, or hardware, or an office, etc . since we still live in money-lenders ruled world, is there a way to contribute (money) to centos but not directly? like, instead giving money, pay

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Donations - Is Money a Curse?

2011-02-19 Thread Sean
James B. Byrne wrote: But, our future financial support for CentOS is contingent upon dealing with an independent legal entity that conforms with national and international tax laws and corporate reporting requirements. A new model (appropriate to OSS) is being worked on here:

[CentOS] CentOS Donations - Is Money a Curse?

2011-02-17 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, February 16, 2011 17:08, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 16.02.2011 um 22:29 schrieb Larry Vaden: Even further, the resistance to properly funding this project is truly amazing. Well, with money come a lot of strings attached. Most likely, one would either have to incorporate a