[Discuss] EOMA68 Libre Hardware Standard and Libre Software project, currently crowd-funding (deadline expires 26th aug 2016)

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Chris Church
<thisdroneeatspeople at gmail.com> wrote:

> The supreme court of the US has several times declared that there is no such
> requirement to pursue profit at the cost of all else, most recently in the
> Hobby Lobby case [2].

 i just re-read Professor Yunus' book, "Creating a World Without
Poverty" - he explains it best, in the most comprehensive, reasonable,
rational and logical way.  put simply: charitable giving by companies
*stops* when the company is under financial pressure.  when it comes
to it, companies are only answerable to one bottom line: profit.

 now, that court may actually have been overstepping its bounds by
making the declaration that they did.  remember: Directors can be
struck off for *not* enacting the Articles of Incorporation.  they can
be sued by the Shareholders for not enacting the Articles of
Incorporation.  if the Directors do not behave in a way which
prioritises their LEGAL obligations to follow the Articles of
Incorporation (which are usually boiler-plate-written to say "profit
is the goal"), they can end up with a criminal record!  it's real
simple!

 ... yeah.  read Professor Yunus' book.  it's an amazing story in its own right.

l.