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Sometimes context is more important than contentSometimes context is more important than contentPosted Jan 13, 2009 19:18 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)In reply to: Sometimes context is more important than content by TxtEdMacs Parent article: A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows (New York Times)
yeah... that foundation.... the hedge against the collapse of Canonical. I am aware of it. My understanding is that its incorporated on the Isle of Man, as is Canonical. I have no idea what the reporting requirements are for non-profits incorporated on the Isle of Man are. But for the US and other places an annual report is required by law to keep your non-profit status. And healthy non-profits use that reporting requirement as a communications tool. Has anyone heard anything from that foundation since the press release?
The Gnome Foundation has one. They even release it online:
The online bit isn't strictly necessary of course...but its certainly a nice touch for a Foundation like Gnome that is overseeing a distributed international community development effort. Oh wait that sounds a lot like the demographics of Ubuntu too.
Here's the really funny thing. Shuttleworth runs another foundation. The cleverly named... Shuttleworth Foundation.
Even better the release of the Shuttleworth Foundation annual report was picked up on an independent Ubuntu oriented news site.
Has there ever been communication from the Ubuntu foundation since that initial press release? Ever? And since the Ubuntu foundation doesn't materially own any of the infrastructure by which Ubuntu is built or released, nor does it even have a legal claim to the Ubuntu trademarks, its not clear what role it really can play in a doomsday scenario other than providing unemployment benefits. Unless Canonical goes the extra mile and signs over ownership of the equipment/code and ownership of the Ubuntu trademarks to the foundation, the foundation is a non-entity without an active role to play. But it still may require an annual report to be filed for tax purposes. That $10 might as well just be sitting in a bank account collecting revenue interest for Canonical itself.
-jef
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