>Rob Cozens: I don't know about non-profit; but a new
>for-profit corporation expecting to generate less than
>$1 mil in first-year income pays a $100 filing fee &
>$300 franchise fee to file articles of incorporation
>in California, and must prepay $500 in estimated taxes
>3.5 months into its first income year. Thereafter
>there is a minimum tax of $800 annually.
>(...)
>Rob Cozens: if we are non-profit and our product is
>free and the license disclaims any liability, then
>potential liability is nil on a practical basis.
>(...)
>Alain: I would add: we stipulate that partners cannot
>enter into any contracts whatsoever in the name of our
>group. Anything business is strictly personal and has
>nothing to do with us collectively.
Folks,
my opinion is that OC should be strictly non-profit. We'd simply allow
others to sell OC distributions. As I said, I'm more interested in
producing a useful open-source program than in watching that nobody sells
the code I wrote. Let this fictitious MicroSloth company make money off an
OpenCard fork, as long as they can't prevent us from distributing and
developing our product, I don't mind.
I want to work on OpenCard because I need a new HyperCard, and because I'd
like to be able to modify it according to my needs.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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