Hello Everyone,
I see two problems with that approach: first, they will be most likely unwilling to take responsibility for our grey-zone chemical toy, that's the purpose the idea of forming an entity came up for. Second, in my opinion, if we want to do serious things like presenting a product or service to the market in exchange of financial compensation (either for-profit or non-profit), at some point it will become unavoidable that we form something that is, on an administrative, business and legal level, more than a private citizen acting along direct interpersonal contacts in name of some group of other private citizens or an externally more-or-less obscure open-source project.
Regards,
Ferenc
On 25/03/2021 18:53, David Lanzendörfer wrote:
Hey List! AFAIK, ASCENT+ is already a cooperative, so if we could get out foot into that club, we would already have achieved that goal. In addition, we'd get access to clean rooms and services across Europe.
Cheers -lev
On Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:24:38 PM WET Hagen SANKOWSKI wrote:
Hello List!
Last Sunday we talked also about "Legal background: form a limited-liability company to handle the stuff."
Well, I vote for using a SCE [0] to fulfill this legal task instead of a company.
A company is mostly owned be some individuals which rules the whole process in a "capitalistic" way. And I do not thinks this form will reflect our mission to bring the advantage of an open-and-free technology to the masses.
In my opinion a cooperative fits better into our community-based environment. We need at least five entities (persons or institutions) from two different European Countries - a goal I guess we can reach while our active members are all located in Europe.
So, the SCE can attract many members and give us a legal home for that. Okay, on backside of the SCE, a higher effort is driving/leading this cooperative because the SCE lives with the engagement of all of its members. I understand this as an enrichment. :-)
Regarding the naming rules I propose
"SCE LibreSilicon Alliance" as a suitable name
for our cooperative enterprise.
Some arguments for cooperatives also Wikipedia has [1].
Please feel free - even if your not from Europe - to give any feedback which Advantages and Disadvantages do you see in setting up and driving a SCE. Let's argue and find the best legal form to build a great LibreSilicon community.
Live long and prosper, Hagen.
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