27 Oct
2000
27 Oct
'00
9:28 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:23:10PM -0700, healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
Yeah, DECUS was about to cease to exist for some
reason unless they reformed
themselves as a new organization. They had a vote of the members and the
reorg was denied. The board then called an emergency meeting and used some
loophole to do this without the memberships permission. There has been a
lot on USENET about this in recent months, the actual change occured a few
weeks ago.
Zane
Basically the gist of it was, they needed to form an actual corporation
for legal reasons - like they'd lost about $600K on some trade show from
a company that didnt pay them, and since DECUS wasnt a "recognized" legal
entity, they couldnt sue to get the money - so they reorganized into
encompass, which is a legal corporation or somesuch.
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX