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On Friday 16 April 2004 09:56 pm, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> It's hard to make extremely huge profits selling CDs of free software (and |
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> soon, t-shirts.) I don't think you may realize that having a NFP allows for |
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> much more funding potential than a basic CD/t-shirt business. The |
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> difference in potential is very much in favor of the NFP. |
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I would argue with this. Like I mentioned before, a NFP allows for a lot |
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more than just a CD/t-shirt business. There are grants and such out there |
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along with the possibility of sales. Take the hospital that our son was born |
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in back in January, was a not for profit hospital, and they do a HECK of a |
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lot more than CD's and T-shirts. :) (and NFP does not make them any |
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cheaper either) The difference that the NFP status allows them is that they |
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are able to charge the same but instead of continually "turning a profit", |
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they are reinvesting that money into the hospital itself. Same idea here, we |
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are not trying to turn a continual profit and please our investors (ala |
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RedHat), but the idea is to take the moneys and resources and invest them |
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back into Gentoo itself. |
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I would just like to see more of a positive attitude towards the NFP as far as |
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finances go, as opposed to the idea that NFP means "no money". |
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Cheers! |
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