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Karen and Bradley discuss the USAmerican legal system in regard to
torts, and the current delays from the USA IRS on 501(c)(3) non-profit
applications (i.e., Form 1023s).

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:48)

• Billy Crook wrote in to make a good joke about 0x12 being the last
  episode available in other RSS feeds. (Don't forget the right RSS feed
  is at faif.us.)
• Karen calls tortes
  delicious pastries.

• Bradley saw a documentary
  called Hot Coffee, which discussed the idea of href="http://www.tortdeform.com/">tort deform. (03:35, 05:45)
• Bradley mentioned that href="http://www.open.salon.com/blog/mahabarbara/2009/03/20/tort_reform_how_karl_rove_isnt_done_with_us_yet">Karl
  Rove, George W. Bush's political operative, was involved in early tort
  “reform”. (06:54)
• Brendan Scott is a lawyer in Australia, who has href="http://www.opensourcelaw.biz/publications/">published about GPL
  enforcement and writes
  a blog about legal issues related to Open Source and Free Software
  (11:58)

Segment 1 (12:50)

• Bradley talked about 501(c)(3) status and Form 1023s in href="http://twit.tv/floss171">his interview on FLOSS
  weekly. (13:50)
• Around 2010, applications for Free Software non-profits' 501(c)(3)
  status started to be delayed, according to independent evidence that
  Karen and Bradley have collected from the IRS and the community of
  non-profits. (16:20)
• href="http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=130101,00.html">Form
  1023s are the applications you file with the IRS (17:15)
• As far as we know, no applications have been refused yet for a
  Free Software non-profit, but there seem to be extremely long
  delays. (18:40)
• Bradley mentioned a blog post from href="http://blog.cashmusic.org/2011/06/23/the-tough-road-to-501c3-status-for-open-source/">the
  Executive Director of CASH Music, where he talked about their Form
  1023 being delayed. (19:10)
• Karen has confirmed with IRS agents that this process of
  applications does not impact existing non-profits
  currently. (21:00)
• Bradley pointed out that COBOL jobs are still very
  prevalent. Bradley even found href="http://www.justcoboljobs.com/">a website dedicated only to COBOL
  jobs. (36:18)
• After we recorded, href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/07/fud-barriers-for-open-source-non-profits/index.htm">Simon
  Phipps posted a blog post quoting Bradley about the issue
.

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