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Page 37 of the lawsuit has the certificate of incorporation. It says precisely what Musk claims it says. That’s the founding document he’s referencing.
by codexb 3y ago
Page 37 of the lawsuit has the certificate of incorporation. It says precisely what Musk claims it says. That’s the founding document he’s referencing.
- jcranmer 3y ago> It says precisely what Musk claims it says. Almost. Musk uses an ellipsis in his copy in the text that elides some text that is rather detrimental to his claims: > In furtherance of its purposes, the corporation shall engage in any lawful act of activity for which nonprofit corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
- otterley 3y agoEh. That's boilerplate and is probably in every charter of every organization incorporated in Delaware.
- jakderrida 3y agoHow do you know if it's boilerplate? Can you fetch it for me?
- cruffle_duffle 3y agoIf it’s boilerplate than GPT is probably very well trained on it and could recite it quite easily.
- chmod775 3y ago§102 (a) (3) in https://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/title8.pdf https://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/title8.pdf reads: > The certificate of incorporation shall set forth [..] the nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted. It shall be sufficient to state [..] that the purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware [..].
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- edanm 3y agoSo? Boilerplate is there for a reason, usually because previous lawsuits or decisions made it clear that that boilerplate needs to be there for protecting against specific things. And if the argument is "its just boilerplate, the court shouldn't take it seriously", that's an argument I can get behind for something like a EULA - but not for an article incorporating a non-profit whose signatories include incredibly rich and high-profile individuals, who either had their lawyers comb over this contract, or should've done so. "I didn't realize what I was signing" is not a particularly valid excuse coming from Elon Musk.
- 4death4 3y ago> In furtherance of its purposes