On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 16:09, toki <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/06/2011 00:13, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > >> Hmm, interesting. What constitutes "doing business" in a state? > > That literally depends upon the state. > > It can range from attendance at a trade show, to having an office with > employees, a bank account, and an in-state telephone. > >>most of ODFAuthors membership, and the server on which its website is > hosted, are located outside the USA. > > That might not make any difference. >
AFAIK, anyone who attends trade shows does so as an individual, or on behalf of some other group, not ODFAuthors. The group (not really an organisation) has no office, no bank accounts in the USA, no telephones, nothing... though individual members might. To Andrew P: Similar comment. Anything you post is done as an individual, surely? And book sales are done by Friends of OpenDocument, the publisher (an Australian organisation, with its bank account and Paypal account in Australia), not the ODFAuthors team. Friends of has an account with Lulu.com; ODFAuthors does not. If an individual buys a book from Friends of and then resells that book, that's still nothing to do with ODFAuthors "doing business", and more than if someone buys a book from any other publisher and resells that book. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
