On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:23:10PM -0700, healyzh_at_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_at_mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Received on Fri Oct 27 2000 - 16:28:46 BST