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The article never calls him a "professional accountant". He's the accountant of X.org, but in fairness, he's really a system engineer. He's never been an accoun
by rgbrenner 13y ago
The article never calls him a "professional accountant". He's the accountant of X.org, but in fairness, he's really a system engineer. He's never been an accountant anywhere:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-kreitman/5/185/942 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-kreitman/5/185/942
So he's really just an engineer that they gave the accounting work to. That probably explains quite a bit.
- Zelphyr 13y agoNot really. Most engineers I know are at least smart enough to know that if you don't pay your taxes for eight years you're going to have a problem with the IRS.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoYup, experience taught me that in 1/8th of that amount if time.
- nknighthb 13y agoActually he's Treasurer, which means he has responsibility for an organization's money, but does not necessarily perform the functions of an accountant. When giving the role to someone without any particular expertise, you would expect a professional accountant to be retained to advise and assist in any nontrivial case. But since nobody thought to file taxes (or make sure they got filed), I'm assuming they didn't think to do that either. This degree of incompetence is troubling, especially given the massive array of resources X.Org could have called on for help in ensuring the foundation was being run correctly.