Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Corey Shields <cshields@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] CDs and t-shirts
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:44:14
Message-Id: 200404170846.21998.cshields@indiana.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-nfp] CDs and t-shirts by Daniel Robbins
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4 On Friday 16 April 2004 09:56 pm, Daniel Robbins wrote:
5 > It's hard to make extremely huge profits selling CDs of free software (and
6 > soon, t-shirts.) I don't think you may realize that having a NFP allows for
7 > much more funding potential than a basic CD/t-shirt business. The
8 > difference in potential is very much in favor of the NFP.
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10 I would argue with this. Like I mentioned before, a NFP allows for a lot
11 more than just a CD/t-shirt business. There are grants and such out there
12 along with the possibility of sales. Take the hospital that our son was born
13 in back in January, was a not for profit hospital, and they do a HECK of a
14 lot more than CD's and T-shirts. :) (and NFP does not make them any
15 cheaper either) The difference that the NFP status allows them is that they
16 are able to charge the same but instead of continually "turning a profit",
17 they are reinvesting that money into the hospital itself. Same idea here, we
18 are not trying to turn a continual profit and please our investors (ala
19 RedHat), but the idea is to take the moneys and resources and invest them
20 back into Gentoo itself.
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22 I would just like to see more of a positive attitude towards the NFP as far as
23 finances go, as opposed to the idea that NFP means "no money".
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25 Cheers!
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RE: [gentoo-nfp] CDs and t-shirts Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>