An anonymous reader writes “The X.Org Foundation that is the organization behind driving the X.Org Server projects, Mesa, and Wayland open-source programs had its tax-exempt status revoked by the IRS. It turns out the X.Org Foundation lost its 501(c)3 status after quite a lot of work to become a non-profit organization with guidance from the Software Freedom Law Center, but they got in trouble after failing to routinely file their taxes on time. There’s also been a host of other X.Org accounting errors in recent years. There was also the recent news of the IRS going after open-source projects, too.”… An anonymous reader writes “The X.Org Foundation that is the organization behind driving the X.Org Server projects, Mesa, and Wayland open-source programs had its tax-exempt status revoked by the IRS. It turns out the X.Org Foundation lost its 501(c)3 status after quite a lot of work to become a non-profit organization with guidance from the Software Freedom Law Center, but they got in trouble after failing to routinely file their taxes on time. There’s also been a host of other X.Org accounting errors in recent years. There was also the recent news of the IRS going after open-source projects, too.”

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