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Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations
- herethere23 10mo ago[flagged]
- mcny 10mo agoSorry, I am a little off topic but the word you are looking for is "peddling" as in peddle Peddle (verb) meaning: sell (illegal drugs or illicit goods). "he was arrested after trying to peddle guns"
- ashirviskas 10mo agoMaybe he lives in Netherlands and saw everyone avoiding the topic on bicycles. Or maybe they got autocorrected. Or maybe you're right and someone learned something new today. Merry Christmas, my dude.
- mcny 10mo agoMerry Christmas
- pessimizer 10mo agoThe word is "eggcorn." Always correct them for people, it's a blessing. We all have them, and the last thing you want is to accidentally have a really dumb one end up in the appeal letter you wrote to the board.
- Animats 10mo agoThat's pathetic. ($900K) We should be seeing large donations from companies whose products are based on free software. Like AWS.
- miohtama 10mo agoThat by definition would not be free software anymore
- RobotToaster 10mo agoI have bad news about the Linux foundation then.
- throawayonthe 10mo agothe linux foundation does not claim to be a proponent of free software though?
- squigz 10mo agoHow so?
- globular-toast 10mo agoThe FSF isn't here for large organisations. It's here for us, the public. You can't really expect any entity to fund something that isn't in their interest. Even if they did it would be more for a PR piece and they'd cut it as soon as they could. That's why it's important that we (the public) fund organisations that fight for us.
- dmos62 10mo agoFree software is in everyone's interest. It's just that if you drag your feet, probably someone else will pay for it.
- shevy-java 10mo agoI don't evaluate it in this way. What I think should instead be evaluated is how effective that investment into the FSF can be. I think we also need to think more strategically here. For instance, LibreOffice should really receive a lot more funding and support by states all across this planet. I am tired of the US monopoly (almost a monopoly) here (Microsoft).
- gtsnexp 10mo agoGo FSF & GNU! Superb Christmas news!
- shevy-java 10mo agoForce of Good!
- exceptione 10mo agoI wonder if an anonymous Monero donation would be tax deductible. I guess it won't.
- zenmac 10mo agoIt should just be treated as cash type of donation. Get a paper receipt.
- xhkkffbf 10mo agoIf the asset has risen in value over the years, the donor could (a) sell it for dollars, pay capital gains taxes, and then donate the rest or (b) donate the asset and let the FSF do the selling. (b) avoids the tax which means more money for the FSF. It's a common approach with non-profits.
- yunnpp 10mo agoAre you saying 501 non-profits don't pay capital gains? (b) certainly avoids tax on the donor's part, but on the non-profit? I am assuming the non-profit would have to convert to fiat to do something useful with the donation.
- GabrielTFS 10mo agoThey would generally need to convert to fiat to do something useful, yes, but 501 (c) (3) nonprofits generally don't pay capital gains tax, no.
- eleventyseven 10mo ago> Are you saying 501 non-profits don't pay capital gains? Correct, as long as those gains are used as part of the 501-aligned mission. Same with donations, they don't pay a corp income tax. This is part of being a tax exempt organization.
- flipped 10mo agoAnd fund wars with those taxes? Monero is literally being your own private bank, there's no concept of tax.
- akimbostrawman 10mo ago[flagged]
- saubeidl 10mo agoYou don't know if the senders were criminals. That's the thing about private anonymous monero.
- akimbostrawman 9mo agoand that doesn't/shouldn't matter same as with cash. all coins are fully fungible unlike bitcoin that can put you into legal trouble by simply receiving tainted coins that at some point somewhere where marked as "illegal".
- reop2whiskey 10mo agoThe private sector is undefeated in value creation for society
- loughnane 10mo ago900k USD via monero (xmr). Love to see the big donation and its cool that it's private.
- grigio 9mo ago2026 the year of monero as internet money