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Funding

Posted Apr 14, 2006 16:57 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: Funding by hppnq
Parent article: Open Source Parking

If I pull this off, I would obviously want to work with people from FSF, EFF, Public Knowledge, etc. For their own reasons, those organizations are not choosing to do this work today.

It is possible for a 501(c)3, or at least the members of one, to create a not-for-profit foundation that is not a 501(c)3 and can do this work. For example, there is ARRL and the ARRL Foundation, two separate organizations working closely together.

EFF could conceivably do this, but is not. EFF is pretty stretched financially, as they historically were funded by one person who saw his wealth diminish in the stock bubble. FSF has other avenues it would rather pursue. I had lunch with Eben and the Freedom Law Center folks last week and discussed this thoroughly.

Thanks

Bruce

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Posted Apr 16, 2006 10:07 UTC (Sun) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link] (2 responses)

I had lunch with Eben and the Freedom Law Center folks last week and discussed this thoroughly.

Yes, and the outcome was ...

By the way, what did the Apache people think of your plan?

Funding

Posted Apr 16, 2006 12:19 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't want to say what Eben would spend money on, that's for him to announce.

I haven't discussed this with Apache folks yet.

Bruce

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Posted Apr 16, 2006 15:37 UTC (Sun) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

I don't want to say what Eben would spend money on, that's for him to announce.

Ah, that's obviously not what I meant. But I'm not pushy. :-)