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501(c)

Posted Apr 13, 2015 16:31 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: 501(c) by tialaramex
Parent article: Linux Foundation to host Let's Encrypt

> e.g. publishing detailed financial accounts, agendas and subsequently minutes of board meetings, all in a timely fashion
For what is worth, SPI provides all that.

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501(c)

Posted Apr 14, 2015 9:38 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

I should hope so - and I'd encourage people looking at starting yet another Free Software charity to support their software project to talk to SPI or one of the other organisations offering to nurture Free Software (e.g. Apache) instead. Probably I should have mentioned that in my earlier comment. I was a bit focused on what happens /after/ they've persuaded themselves that they don't want the shelter of an umbrella but will instead go it alone.