[ZF] Why is non-profit status important?

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

On 02/10/2012 05:29 PM, Aroldo Souza-Leite wrote:
> Hi Tres,
>
>
> thanks for the clarification. You can count on me if you need any
> support in reading, making comments or evaluating the documents.
>
> The importance of the non-profit status might be a trait of the kind of
> customers I usually deal with. They see the "owner" of the Software I
> try to "sell" to them as "companies" that they would like to get to know
> better - especially if they are financing sprints and other events that
> might have a positive effect on the value of Zope as a whole. GFU Cyrus
> is just one example as a private corporation, but semi-governmental
> institutions are even stricter in this sense. I hope to explain my
> position more clearly in the course of the discussion around the elections.

The DZUG (which has turned the Python Software Verband now) has 
discussed a similar issue during their founding back in 2004. Have an 
"association" incorporation in Germany that *usually* goes along with 
being non-profit. However, none of our business is hampered by not 
having it - quite opposite: as we don't have to stick to those limiting 
criteria, we can do whatever we feel is best for our cause as long as we 
can convince others to support us and our members that what we do is OK.

I haven't even touched this issue in board meetings as I don't know 
anything about American tax issues, maybe I should have spoken up 
against trying to become non-profit, but I guess I was somehow stuck in 
group think.

Christian

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