re: organisations - Consortium

31 Jan 2004

...
   But what will
it solve?If part of linuxaudio's agenda is to get 
 funding to be used for the  enhancement of the pro-audio development platform on
Linux then having a
 formal organization is essential. 
In which sense formal? Does it solve the legal issues?

...
  Companies and persons who would want
 to sponsor such things needs someone to make an arrangement with.
 That is why GNOME has the GNOME Foundation, Ogg has Xiph and is why we
 have OSDL. 
Sure, i know, but i was more interested to know how the legal issues involved in the
establishing of an organisation 
will get solved. AFAIK GNOME Foundation and Xiph are both official 501(c)(3) non-profit
organisations. Its members are natural persons.

Marek