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Did I? B2B dealings, DUNS number… none of these are for individuals. Is it the intention that individuals cannot write software for phones anymore?

arghwhat 1y ago
DUNS numbers are for all legal entities including individuals, and an individual can act as a business.
- Keyframe 1y ago
  DUNS numbers are for all legal entities including individuals only if they do operate as a business through sole proprietorship, otherwise no.
  - arghwhat 1y ago
    No, a single person individual can register. Doing business is orthogonal to being a company, and depending on your country, some "company" forms are just VAT filing registrations for an individual itself with no independent legal status. What you normally call a company is something that behaves as an independent legal person. However, it may be legally required to register a proper company if your yearly business volume exceed a certain value - check local rules - but it may also be perfectly fine to do business as an individual below that volume, in which case the legal entity is just you. (The alternative to being a business in a transaction is being a consumer)
  - immibis 1y ago
    There's no legal distinction between an individual and a sole proprietorship
Keyframe 1y ago
No, you didn't read that wrong. It does seem like intention is that individuals cannot publish (publish, not write) software for playstore if they cannot operate as a business; Individuals actually can operate as a business as a sole proprietorship aka soleprop which can and do have a DUNS number and is a legit way of doing business. Individuals without any sort of business entity attached to them do not get a DUNS number attached to them.
- arghwhat 1y ago
  Doing business and registering a company (a separate legal person) are orthogonal concepts that are specific to local legislation. You can do business as a private individual, and various "company" forms in various countries are not actually companies but just VAT/financial registrations for the individual itself and have no legal status of its own. Whether you need to register a company form depends on local rules and may be subject to e.g. volume limits (e.g., okay below 10k USD annual). The alternative to being s business in s transaction is being a consumer (as in B2C), and you're obviously not a consumer when publishing an app.

arghwhat 1y ago

DUNS numbers are for all legal entities including individuals, and an individual can act as a business.

Keyframe 1y ago
DUNS numbers are for all legal entities including individuals only if they do operate as a business through sole proprietorship, otherwise no.
- arghwhat 1y ago
  No, a single person individual can register. Doing business is orthogonal to being a company, and depending on your country, some "company" forms are just VAT filing registrations for an individual itself with no independent legal status. What you normally call a company is something that behaves as an independent legal person. However, it may be legally required to register a proper company if your yearly business volume exceed a certain value - check local rules - but it may also be perfectly fine to do business as an individual below that volume, in which case the legal entity is just you. (The alternative to being a business in a transaction is being a consumer)
- immibis 1y ago
  There's no legal distinction between an individual and a sole proprietorship

Keyframe 1y ago

No, you didn't read that wrong. It does seem like intention is that individuals cannot publish (publish, not write) software for playstore if they cannot operate as a business; Individuals actually can operate as a business as a sole proprietorship aka soleprop which can and do have a DUNS number and is a legit way of doing business. Individuals without any sort of business entity attached to them do not get a DUNS number attached to them.

arghwhat 1y ago
Doing business and registering a company (a separate legal person) are orthogonal concepts that are specific to local legislation. You can do business as a private individual, and various "company" forms in various countries are not actually companies but just VAT/financial registrations for the individual itself and have no legal status of its own. Whether you need to register a company form depends on local rules and may be subject to e.g. volume limits (e.g., okay below 10k USD annual). The alternative to being s business in s transaction is being a consumer (as in B2C), and you're obviously not a consumer when publishing an app.