Proginoskes Wrote:What does "CI" stand for again?Configuration Item ... no, wait - that's the ISO 20000 definition.
Catgirl Industries.
Proginoskes Wrote:In any case, the test is "Is it possible to be a member of the group without actively working for them?". For this purpose, volunteers count as "employees", and an organization composed entirely of volunteers is still a "Company".Rules can definitely be bent - the two Terraforming Projects are not listed as companies, even though they're the full-time employers of hundreds if not thousands of people.
But yeah, rules can be bent. In this case, Word of Creator overrides Word of Mod (only since where something is shelved is a very minor thing unlikely to cause anyone problems), which in turn overrides rules-based decisions.
I went by the group's purpose for the divisions. StellviaCorp is pretty clearly a company - they do business with half the other group in Fenspace and a fair number of groups in the 'Danelaw. The Dandelions aren't a company - what little organization they have is devoted to keeping the lights on at Space Station Three and their other installations. Catgirl Industries comes up with stuff, and makes that stuff available to others. They seem to me like a company, much like the RAND Corporation...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012