[CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine Pledgie campaign

[jon at rejon.org]

taxation depending on where you make it or sell it. do it in hongkong, 0
tax.

Anyway, I would not want this donation drive to compete with our precious
LGM drive, esp. since they share same name.

I would prefer this just makes money. Its easier to do.

Jon

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Cyrille Berger Skott
<cberger at cberger.net>wrote:

>  On Sunday 24 October 2010, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>
> > On 10/24/10, jon wrote:
>
> > > Why not just sell them?
>
> >
>
> > Taxation
>
> >
>
> > Truly yours,
>
> > Captain Obvious :)
>
> Yeah, on the other hand...
>
> 1) 8000$ is a lot of money, especially for something that does not exist, I
> have no doubt the result will be great, but it is a bit difficult to explain
> to outsiders. Personnally I would have wait to have something to show (at
> least, I would have been willing to blog if I could show a PDF).
>
> 2) You won't be able to repeat the donation driver for each issue, so it
> would probably be a good idea to think about a sustainable model, aka sell
> the magazine, or a subscription
>
> 3) if you use a non-profit organization, the magazine can be seen as the
> "free" magazine of the organization, distributed to its member, and then you
> setup the yearly membership to cover the cost, wouldn't that work to avoid
> or limit taxes ?
>
> --
>
> Cyrille Berger Skott
>
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