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Username: kschneyer
Date/Time: Sun, November 12, 2000 at 8:55 PM GMT
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Subject: There are corporations and corporations

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I think that a modest search of business literature would disclose the names of dozens of for-profit companies that have voluntarily liquidated rather than divert from their stated missions.  (GM and ATT are not the whole sample.)  I also think that a similar search would disclose several nonprofits that *have* abandoned their missions in order to remain viable.  (Childwatch -- or perhaps I should say, "Childwatch to date" -- is not the whole sample either.)

Profit vs. nonprofit is not the issue; dedication to the mission is.  At any rate the point is probably a non-issue, because it seems abuntantly clear that an applicant *can* make a profit while staying within this mission.  I have a hard time envisioning a situation, for example, in which a registry could remain profitable only by accepting applications from child predators.

Kenneth L. Schneyer
Professor of Legal Studies
Johnson & Wales University

 


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