-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Clarification re Personal Liability Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 23:45:44 -0400 From: Diana Gale Matthiesen <dianagal@ufl.edu> To: JYoung6180@aol.com CC: listowners-L@rootsweb.com References: <868cb549.248340d8@aol.com> *Pets*?! You mean, after subsidizing the startup of one business, I'm now going to subsizide another one -- totally unrelated to genealogy? What kind of business is this? If it has to do with animals and it's anything *but* an animal shelter, I do not approve. Diana JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 5/30/99 8:50:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > dml2s@worldnet.att.net writes: > > > I keep wondering where these "for-profit" rumors come > > from. > > Hi Dave- a very short time ago Brian actually clarified this for us by > telling us that RootsWeb would actually be filing very shortly to become TWO > corporations--ONE for genealogy..as a 501(c)3 non profit; and TWO as a for > profit corporation which will handle the new business of pets, etc. The > latter one of course is intended to be profitable and to help subsidize the > genealogy non-profit and minimize or do away with the loses. Perhaps this was > misunderstood by some? Or perhaps there are merely those among us who prefer > rumor and innuendo to fact? > > Joan