1. What arrangements are being made to pay the $105,000 Winston & Strawn bill in the Eschoir matter? Did you have any idea the bill would be this large?
2. What is the status of the appeal in the LAT/WP matter? Who is FR's attorney, now that Clarity has left the case?
3. Why is it costing twice as much to run FR today as it did last March, what with all of John's bandwidth improvements?
4. Did FR raise $7,300 for non-profit filings? If so, how was that money spent?
5. Who owns the forum software?
6. How is FR's revenue reported for state and federal tax purposes?
I have many more questions, but these will keep you busy for awhile. Thanks in advance for your answers, and the opportunity to question you!
Oh well, at least you're expressing an interest. Nothing wrong with that, IMO.
Speaking of Chuck, is he still a member?
2. What is the status of the appeal in the LAT/WP matter? Who is FR's attorney, now that Clarity has left the case?
3. Why is it costing twice as much to run FR today as it did last March, what with all of John's bandwidth improvements?
4. Did FR raise $7,300 for non-profit filings? If so, how was that money spent?
5. Who owns the forum software?
6. How is FR's revenue reported for state and federal tax purposes?
I have many more questions, but these will keep you busy for awhile. Thanks in advance for your answers, and the opportunity to question you!"
1. We are paying them $3,000 per month. I had no idea the bill was going to be so high.
2. The case is on appeal. We are waiting to hear from the court. David Flyer is our new attorney.
3. Our contract with our provider was for one year - ending next month. The improvements John made will allow us to have more users online without impacting the service as much. We will continue to contract for a 10mbps line, but we are negotiating a new contract at lower rates. We hope to bring our bandwidth costs down a couple thousand dollars per month next year.
4. Yes, we raised money for filing for three new 501(c) corporations and we paid $7,300 (or thereabouts - I don't remember the figure to the penney) to an attorney to file the necessary paperwork. The project ran into many snags and was eventually abandoned.
5. I own the original forum software. I developed it myself and John and I improved it over the years. John is now working on totally new forum software. He dropped our of Free Republic a year ago and formed a new corporation. He is developing his new software from scratch. He is a much more capable programmer than I am, and his software will be far superior to my own design.
6. FR is organized as an LLC. The taxes on an LLC are paid by the individual members (of the LLC). I am the majority owner and therefor pay the lion's share of the taxes on my personal return.
Not saying that I am willing to answer every question you may have, but I will answer all I can.