Will the new US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner allow non-profit status for open source projects?
A few hours ago Timothy Geithner was sworn in as the Treasury Secretary for the United States of America. Among his many duties he will oversee the Internal Revenue Service which oversees arcane sections of the tax policy such as granting 501(c)(3), non-profit, status. Over the last several years the IRS has quietly been denying non-profit status to open source projects. Many people in the open source community are surprised by this because because they have come to know several open source projects which do have non-profit status. My understanding is that most of those projects received their non-profit status prior to 2004. Drupal is one of the most popular web content management systems in the non-profit sector, and many people who’ve crossed over from the non-profit world are shocked to find out the ease with which they received non-profit status for their faith, advocacy, or arts group does not apply to open source projects. I began the process for applying for non-profit status i
