Rebuilding
In the Fall of 2005 the founding directors met, decided to clean up the organizational backlog and start funding FOSS projects again.
In June 2005, Bank of America bought MBNA. In April 2007, Bank of America gave Linux Fund notice that the affinity Master Card program would be discontinued effective June 30, 2007.
On July 1, 2007 US Bank released a Linux Fund Visa card.
In August 2007 the IRS granted Linux Fund 501(c)(3) status.
In May 2009 the Open Hardware Foundation joined Linux Fund.
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Famous quotes containing the word rebuilding:
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“... most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn’t elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)