Opensource/non-profit?

Subject: Opensource/non-profit? Tue May 25, 2010 2:45 pm

Aggressive Opensource and the Corporate Non-Profit Motive

Why is FoxyWorlds open source? Why is the FSF a nonprofit?

First of all, opensource is the best way to protect FoxyWorlds from losing its free P2P option; it protects our coding effort from being privatized and our network from becoming another overpriced World of Warcraft clone. By keeping a free option we don't price people like ME from being able to enjoy the fruits of our labors

Us poor folks without much "mad money" can still enjoy our creativity and contribute to the community. A lot of us can't afford $50 for a locked up proprietary game or the typical monthly fees for things like XBOX Online or WOW. We've done spent our wad just to get a decent computer amd internet connection, and we just don't have enough little green slavery coupons to enjoy all the fun things in the world we'd like, in short we are NOT ALLOWED.

Open source also gives us access to those of our more technically savvy users to find and close up any security holes in the system that WE didn't find. Furthermore staying open gives us better license terms on the modules we will embed such as MySQL and Apache.

Why a 501c3 nonprofit, simply put this removes the greed motive to squeeze the users for maximizing profits. By totally removing the profit motive we are forced to plow literally everything back into the network. We will be unable to siphon huge amounts of cash out for ostentation like chauffer driven limos, $1000 a night tantrically trained superhookers and exclusive country club memberships like the typical perks for-profit CEO's enjoy. Like any nonprofit we will still be able to have paid staff positions paying a fair wage so as to attract talented personnel, those of us building and maintaining the network will not have to spend 8 hrs a day sworking for somebody else just to keep a roof over our heads and the net on. I'm hoping we can eventually have the same success as the Sesame Street Workshop. Who knows, maybe we will even be able to license our characters to toy companies like they do thus providing yet another revenue stream.

Also a good 501 can be filed legally a lot easier and cheaper than the LLC I'd originally planned on. Its a lot easier for a non lawyer to file a 501 and have it all legal and airtight than it is to do a for profit LLC corporation. Public corporations with public stock bring in yet another layer of expensive experts, IPO's, regulations and soforth. Accounting and taxes also become far less problematicfor a nonprofit

But the biggest reason is that we will HAVE to spend it all on things like promotion, research, advertising and .eventually bigger and better serverside facilities.