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> On 11/12/2012 06:10 PM, Aaron J. Angel wrote:
> > You've missed my point entirely.  Well-understood by whom?
> 
> I'm sorry, those things are understood in law, and in the courts,
> where such things have consequence.

Should 'these things' not be understood via common sense?
Without need for pages and pages of words that obfuscate perception of
the 'bigger picture'?

> If you where to describe something as a "Voluntary Association" or
> "Collective" to a lawyer, they will have a very clear understanding of
> what it is you are referring to, and they will have all sorts of
> reference material to determine, with precision, the legal and lawful
> standing of the "Collective" is on any particular topic.

How would a body with no legal structure be a part of any court
proceedings as such? 

Studying the assignment of legal definition to actual, real-world
phenomenon, such as this bond of people running a functional alternative
dns system, is the job of lawyers, so what does that matter here ? 

> If Open Nic is a non-organisation, a kind of anarchistic group that
> does formally not exist (no legal body) and where we do not know the
> decision procedure, it is more difficult to cooperate.

As far as I know, OpenNIC does not require any payment and offers a
free-for-all public benefit service.

This is not fascism, we can still go out and gather peacefully and do
good for free and fun, without having to conform to a binding legal
structure.

from altrootfoundation.org:
> Application costs: 50.000 USD

No comment.


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