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user-inactivated  ·  2496 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Say goodbye to the video store, hello to the non-profit foundation

    Yeah - let's get a bunch of kids into a building that couldn't make money, to watch movies that didn't make money, to get into an industry that doesn't make money, so they can beg their parents for Kickstarter funding to shoot yet another goddamn "passion project" about lesbian possums under the Aurora bridge or some shit. Fuck. Yeah, Seattle needs another splintered, fractious, self-entitled film community. Why stop at the People's Front of Judea and Judea People's Front when you could have the Front for Judean People, a GoFundMe-approved 501(3)(c)?

A lot of free software projects claim to be educational projects because "we want to organize as a non-profit because we're not driven by the profit motive and are supported by our community" isn't good enough for the IRS. This struck me as a similar thing.