[sudo-discuss] entrepreneurial use of non-profit

[robb]

if it's open hardware/software & horizontal, i'm all for it!

if it's open h/s & top down, maybe they should start looking for a better
fit.

if it's proprietary h/s that's top down...get the fuck out! do you know
where you are? have you read any of our wiki?

the only exception that i can currently think of is when there is some
overwhelming public benefit involved.

my $.02



On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:32 AM, robb <sf99er at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> i'm still confused a bit how a for-profit startup's office space rental
>>> is a tax exempt donation
>>>
>>
>> Not sure I understood that. Is someone trying to rent office space, and
>> claiming that as a donation?
>>
>> If someone is paying for a Sudo membership, keep in mind that memberships
>> do NOT count as tax deductible donations, because you do get something in
>> return!
>>
>> Whether someone is actually renting an office or paying for a Sudo
>> membership to have a de facto office, those things would presumably fall
>> under business expenses for them - same as if they counted their home
>> office as a business expense.
>>
>>
> A few folk are spending a bunch of time in sudo working on their
> for-profit IoT startup. I can't remember if it's fully open source / open
> hardware. If it's not and they use the space a lot then maybe it's
> something we should bring up at the next meeting on June 14th.
>
> Or we could have the discussion right in this thread. How do people feel
> about that?
>
> If it's open stuff they're working on and they spend many hours a week at
> sudo then yeah that seems to me to go against the spirit of the space and I
> feel like we should probably tell them to find a real co-working space
> instead of being a bunch of cheapskates.
>
> Does anyone know? How open is this stuff? If it's 100% open
> hardware/software but still a top-down controlled for profit how do people
> feel about it? What if it's 100% closed?
>
> --
> marc/juul
>
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