[106766] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Coop Peering Fabric??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Epstein)
Tue Aug 12 16:34:46 2008
From: "Randy Epstein" <repstein@chello.at>
To: "'Bill Woodcock'" <woody@pch.net>,
"'Patrick W. Gilmore'" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:30:51 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0808120931420.12881@paixhost.pch.net>
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@merit.edu>
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> That's one of the reasons many of them incorporate as non-profits...
> Under the tax laws of most countries, the U.S. and Canada included,
> non-profits are legaly protected against acquisition by for-profits.
> -Bill
Yes, but it's somewhat easy to convert from non-profit to for-profit anyhow.
Hospitals do it all the time.
Randy
