Re: Mozilla For Profit?

Jamie Lokier <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:52:04 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.free-software-business
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Don Marti wrote:
> > Or, more to the point: 
> > could I create my own corporation with no stockholders and achieve the 
> > benefit of freedom from (most) personal liability that is achieved by a 
> > traditional corporation?
> 
> Any halfway-decent lawyer would blow away
> any corporation that was just there to shield an
> individual from liability.  
> 
> http://www.collierlaw.com/articles/piercing.htm

As the article you link to explains, a corporation _just_ there to
shield someone from liability may be blown away, but the normal
liability protections that are created for legitimate business
purposes remain.

-- Jamie