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Re:The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe by chrisseaton on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:59AM (#23165936)
Some context not in here is that I think they're moving from Ottawa. I think a lot of people think they're quitting the US, and drawing lots of conclusions from that, but it's actually Canada.
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Re:The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe by switch007 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:22AM (#23166113)
According to The Register, people aren't moving from Ottawa, and the legal entity is moving from the US to EU:

> Executive director Mike Milinkovich told The Register: "This is about re-domiciling the legal entity that controls The Eclipse Foundation from the US to Europe."

> Today's move is a little more major (although won't involve moving bottoms from Ottawa seats to something a bit more Belgian just yet).

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/12/eclipse_moves_to_eu...

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Re:The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe by nocturnial on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:29AM (#23166172)
In the statement they said they were a "USA incorporated not-for-profit organization" which already manages operations between Canada (like you said) and the US.

It also mentioned that the names, brand, trademark, intellectual property and anti-trust will be managed by the new belgian entity.

There's nothing wrong with that. It sounds like the move is partially motivated by legal reasons. As an amateur who likes to know the details of laws, I'm interested what the differences are between their current legal entity and the new belgian one.

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Re:The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe by helsinkiandrew on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:29AM (#23166170)
Aren’t they moving the parent US organisation registration to Europe? The Canadian operations seem to be staying untouched:

>The Eclipse Foundation, while currently a USA incorporated not-for-profit organization, already manages its operations split between Canada and Europe, so there will be minimal to no impact to the Foundation’s operations.

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