Re: Questions To Answer

[Nat Friedman <nat helixcode com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> Bart can maybe explain. I imagine it's because the
> board-as-legal-entity is for the benefit of companies, and all the
> interested companies so far are in the US.

One advantage is that US companies can get a tax write-off on monetary
contributions.  I can attest as much as anyone to the contortions
through which US law makes its locally-hosted global entities pass,
but it should be noted that all of the companies we're talking about
so far are American.

Nat