Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return [LWN.net]

Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return

Posted Jan 14, 2008 18:02 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return by johnkarp
Parent article: Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return

If you don't have day-to-day operations, and so you don't have physical space and a postal
address that belongs to the organization, and most of the trustees lose interest in some way
or other, and you don't do business by postal mail routinely, it wouldn't be too hard to
become unreachable by the state indefinitely without realizing it until the state does
something publicly visible and somebody happens to notice.

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Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return

Posted Jan 15, 2008 18:20 UTC (Tue) by markhb (guest, #1003) [Link] (1 responses)

If you're a corporation, non-profit or not, you are required to have a Registered Agent with a
physical address to not only receive mailings, etc., but also to be the person to whom court
papers are served (i.e., in case they are sued and the paperwork has to be hand-delivered to a
human).  So regardless of Robbins' message, it sounds like the people running the Foundation
were not doing a very sound job of it.

Gentoo loses charter; Robbins offers to return

Posted Jan 15, 2008 19:03 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

I suspect that Robbins is the Registered Agent, as one of the properties of being listed as
President in the state's records, and his registered address is probably out-of-date (since I
think he's changed jobs and locations since he was supposed to not be President, if nothing
else).

But, again, I think that it's because corporations normally have day-to-day operations that
their President has to be involved in that forces them to keep this information accurate in
general.