On 06/21/2011 02:25 AM, Jean Weber wrote:
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?
You are correct Jean, and I certainly did not mean to imply otherwise.
It is more a comment on what I must do. I posted an update to a public
domain C++ cryptography library, and I had to be very careful about what
I posted in that area. Certainly the group would have no likely problems
because of it, but I had to be careful that I would not. Note that I was
careful even though my contribution was only to make the list of names
for the supported methods public. In other words, not even remotely
related to cryptography.
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
This too should highly insulate the organization outside of Australia.
You might be fresh meat inside of Australia (by the way) :-)
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