[HCoop-Discuss] Financial situation

[Adam Chlipala]

Franklin Gordon Bynum wrote:
> On 04/30/2007 12:02:46 AM, j.c.hallgren at juno.com wrote:
>   
>> As far as I'm concerned, I AM looking at this as a business, and the  
>> fact that it's a coop is a minor detail...
>>     
>
> It doesn't matter how you look at it.  It's a co-op, not a business  
> selling you a service. You can keep telling yourself that it's a  
> business, but that won't change anything.
>   

It's probably worth reminding everyone that we have a good number of 
members who joined before we had any formal legal structure, J.C. 
Hallgren among them.  He didn't sign up as a member of a co-op.  He did 
have the option to leave when we became one in the eyes of the law, but 
let's not be unrealistic in our expectations of how inertia leads people 
to keep doing what they've _been_ doing.