[governance] Proposed statement on .ORG sale

[John Levine]

In article <249689857.10213922.1575741857013 at mail.yahoo.com> you write:
>just a broad comment taking no position on the arguments to / form being discussed - only a point of information  : There are new non profit
>commercial venture based entities in existence now. Some jurisdictions have allowed the incorporation of these new commercial non profit
>organizations … the available non-profit  structures has changed considerably over the past few years as traditional sources of revenue
>diwindle …… Amali De Silva Mitchelll

In the US, non-profits have owned commercial businesses for a long
time.  There's nothing new about it.  The one people here are likely
most familiar with is the Mozilla Foundation which owns the much
larger Mozilla Corporation, but there are plenty of others like the
Hershey Trust which owns most of the Hershey candy company and uses
the income to run schools for orphans and other disadvantaged
children.