Gentoo Officially Not-For-Profit

iswm writes "The paperwork for the Gentoo Not-For-Profit entity was approved by the State of New Mexico today. This means that as of today, the Gentoo Foundation is an official Not-For-Profit Corporation in the United States. The process of becoming a Federally-recognized not-for-profit entity, which will take about six months for approval, can now begin."

The real question is....

[coolfrood]

...how long will it take to compile the documentation to make Gentoo a not-for-profit organization?

Re:The real question is....

[millahtime]

...how long will it take to compile the documentation to make Gentoo a not-for-profit organization?

Your Answer:

The process of becoming a Federally-recognized not-for-profit entity, which will take about six months for approval, can now begin

Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

The process of becoming a Federally-recognized not-for-profit entity, which will take about six months for approval, can now begin.

By the time my current compile finishes, Gentoo will be a Federally-recognized not-for-profit. Woohoo!

Linux is not for profits?

[Realistic_Dragon]

Then how do they square the fact that it's used by Linus, Robbins, Stalman and all those other agents of God eh?

Will the government remove their not for prophet status if they discover how deep the OSS religion goes?

Re:The real question is....

[Nakkel]

Didnt take too long for the answer to emerge.

Re:It's wrong!!

[mdarksbane]

No, obviously now it's:

1) fetch packages
2) compile
3) ???
4) !PROFIT

Re:Great!

[chegosaurus]

Repeat until funny.

Re:Okay, a question...

[Anonymous Coward]

Gentoo is aimed at those that really loves compiling. :)

Re:Linux is not for profits?

[no longer myself]

Will the government remove their not for prophet status if they discover how deep the OSS religion goes?

Maybe, but then they will get a tax exempt status for being a religion, and maybe even qualify for funding under the "faith based initiative".

Re:The real question is....

[EvilTwinSkippy]

emerge --deep 501c

Aren't they non-profit already??

[Eggplant62]

I mean, with all the latest press saying that "Linux is a Religion, not an OS", you'd think that they'd get non-profit status as a church or something.

And this means

[metallikop]

Free, untaxable, funroll-loops [funroll-loops.org] for the rest of us!

Re:donations

[klieber]

and organizations to these entities are not tax deductible.

Of course...that should have said "and donations to these entities are not tax deductible."

/me goes to emerge coffee

Re:Interesting

[Krach42]

New Mexico is a gaping black hole that sucks people in and they never leave. I've had two friends move away just to come back here because this is where they found jobs.

Then of course there's all the other crackpots that live here, making Gentoo fit in real nice. Roswell's alien crowd, and the various hippy religious cults.

You can mod me down, but it's true.

isn't VISA not for profit too?

[xutopia]

Would this mean that Gentoo could take over the world like Visa did?

Re:Linux is not for profits?

[mizhi]

They're not prophets, they're charlatan messangers of the great evil satan himself. They're non-prophets and linux is the alatar they constructed for worship at by the followers of their demon cult, the Free Software Foundation.

Gentoo is a just a little spawnlet.

Okay okay, I'm done. Don't throw the tomatoes too hard.

Re:Gentoo better Desktop distro than Debian?

[diamondsw]

Says the person who has to filch files from another distro to get his working?