What’s required of 501(c)(6)?
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Replying to @christi3k
“promote… common [business] interest and not to engage in a regular business of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit”
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“activities should be directed to the improvement of business conditions of one or more lines of business”
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Kind of a weird way to make collusion legal and tax-exempt.
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Also an interesting way to unite smaller and bigger players against a potential monopoly.
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Replying to @christi3k
Still, why tax-exempt? Just to encourage the behavior?
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profit motive (shareholder value) would remove the ability for orgs to collaborate on neutral ground (intellectual property)
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Replying to @brianleroux @christi3k
sounds plausible but I doubt it was designed this way but more so using existing legal apparatus
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foundations for intellectual property safe harbours is relatively new; bet
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not that new, the predecessor to the Linux Foundation was a patent pool.
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