Richard,
I would appreciate it if you allow the protem committee to make the
decisions on OSHCA since the community has given us the mandate to
resurrect OSHCA. Otherwise I feel that you're undermining our efforts. I
don't understand why suddenly you're in such a hurry. Like many others,
Tim Cook, Bhaskar etc had expressed earlier there can be
chapters/branches etc formed later.
The discussions and sentiments expressed here will certainly be taken
into consideration by the protem committee. I would like to appeal to
you not to complicate the matter further otherwise your intentions may
be misconstrued. Please let me complete my job and my responsibility to
the community.
I did not think that my intention to update the community with
information would lead to a kind of upstaging the protem committee's
efforts. If you proceed to register OSHCA it will be tantamount to
acting in bad faith, as I had been negotiating with Brian on behalf of
the community.
Molly
Richard Schilling wrote:
>Since OSCHA is an internationl body we can register siultaneously, and
>choose the base to be anywhere.
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>Is the incorporation in Malaysia going to be doing business or just
>representing FOSS industry interests? Depending on the answer to that
>here are our choices here in the U.S. that I can pursue now:
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>Trade association — Definition.
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> trade associations don't "do business" but exist to exert
> influence on a market. This seems to me the best fit for OSCHA
> if the organization does not intend to own things like
> copyrighted software. Gets around the international
> intellectual property issues on software for OSCHA
> as well.
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> "Trade association," as that term is used here
> means a membership organization of persons engaging in a similar
> or related line of commerce, organized to promote and improve
> business conditions in that line of commerce and not to engage
> in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit
> and for which no part of net earnings inures to the benefit of
> any member.
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>Non-Profit Corporation - Definition.
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> Non-Profit Corporations conduct business (e.g. provide products
> and services) and can also have an influencing effect.
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> A nonprofit corporation is an organization formed as a
> corporation for purposes other than generating a profit, and in
> which no part of the organization's income is distributed to its
> directors or officers. Nonprofits are formed pursuant to state
> law, often under the Revised Model Non-Profit Corporation Act
> (1986). A nonprofit can be a church or church association,
> school, charity, medical provider, legal aid society, volunteer
> service organization, professional association, research
> institute, museum, or in some cases a sports association. Being
> formed with the state as a nonprofit corporation does not
> automatically provide an organization with tax-exempt status.
> Nonprofits must apply for tax-exempt status at the federal and
> sometimes at the state level.
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