Xfce Foundation status

Fabian Nowak timystery at arcor.de
Sun Oct 17 23:57:02 CEST 2010


> > Two things:
> > 1) The Xfce * e.V ist not meant as a foundation from my understanding
> > of the discussion.
> > 2) Why can you argue that noone would want to raise a real foundation
> > dedicted to Xfce? Already among this discussion here have been
> > statements that people wanted to donate.
> > Maybe the entire document/discussion is unclear and one should try to
> > make Xfce * e.V. also a real foundation by the whole concept. Then
> > naming it this way would be very fine.
> 
> I think there is a misunderstanding here. An non-profit e.V. can
> receive donations just fine. People can even deduct their donations
> from the taxes they pay (or rather from the taxable income).

Sorry, you don't get the point (due to maybe my badly formulated tries
to explain). I simply think that the name *really* has to indicate what
it is. The point is not whether anyone is able to donate or not.

> 
> Please inform yourself next time you enter a discussion. Otherwise the
> tag "ridiculous" is quickly going to be applied to your own behaviour.

"Caring" or "worried" is what I use. I did not want to insult anyone
however, but only warn that it may look or appear like to many others,
especially from industrial and commercial settings where proper naming
is very relevant. I proposed to put the status of a foundation more into
foreground and hence to explain the name and everything would be fine.





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