On 12/06/07, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
"The Organization's investments are comprised of 187 shares of Google common stock which are carried at fair value using quoted market prices in accordance with SFAS No. 124, Accounting for Certain Investments Held by Not-for-Profit Organizations."
Indeed. They were a donation, and Wikimedia has since sold them. So even on those tenuous grounds Mathias is still clear.
I thought we'd sold them, but I couldn't check at short notice...
[I remember someone saying we also get a sizable amount of cash donations indirectly from Google - they have a good charitable donation-matching program, and lots of their employees like us]