Rufus Pollock wrote: > 2009/7/14 Andy Kaplan-Myrth<[email protected]>: >> ...is the Open Knowledge >> Foundation actually a "foundation", i.e. with funding, like the Wikimedia >> Foundation or the Mozilla Foundation? > > What do you mean by actually a "foundation". If you mean is that our > formal name and are we incorporated as some kind of legal entity, then > yes: we're a company limited by guarantee and that's our formal name. > Re. funding I would guess we are more (rather) limited in our funding > that either Wikimedia or Mozilla (at least at present!). However, I'm > not sure money need be the determining characteristic -- how much > money did wikimedia have when it began, how much did Apache?
Thanks -- that clears that up. I had thought of organizations called "Foundations" as supporting others through funding, but I'll recalibrate to include other forms of "support". Cheers, Andy -- Andy Kaplan-Myrth, M.A., LL.B. ------------------------------------------------ email: [email protected] web: http://kaplan-myrth.ca blog: http://blog.kaplan-myrth.ca ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
