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Re:Oracle whistleblower suit raises questions over cloud acc... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @04:18AM (#11860775)
> I'm also tempted to say a business whose number one goal isn't making money for its owner and employees should probably be registered as a non-profit or a charity or something else, and not a corporation, but I guess there's no reason they couldn't be a corporation.

Um, what does "corporation" mean to you? Can you identify anything that you would call a "non-profit" that is not also a corporation?

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Re:Oracle whistleblower suit raises questions over cloud acc... by ajdlinux on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @07:33AM (#11861495)
To many people "corporation" == "for-profit corporation", even though that's definitely not true with the standard legal definitions of "corporation".
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Re:Oracle whistleblower suit raises questions over cloud acc... by andrewaylett on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:29AM (#11861037)
At least in the UK, there's the concept of an unincorporated association. The one I chair is definitely non-profit, and (not being incorporated) we're not a corporation.
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