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Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - 9:22pmSanction this postReply
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Joseph Rowlands told me a few weeks ago that SOLO was a for-profit corporation. That has got me somewhat perplexed. It seems to me that it would be pretty difficult to make a business out of philosophical advocacy, but obviously SOLO does it somehow. I wonder if some of the administrators of SOLO could explain to me exactly how SOLO works. First of all, who owns SOLO? Second of all, how does it make money off of what it's doing? I see how it could make money off the Free Radical magazine but the other stuff I don't get. Is the Free Radical so profitable that you can just write all the other stuff off as "advertising"? Or is there something that I'm just not getting here?

------------------------------------Tom Blackstone

http://tomsphilosophy.tripod.com


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Thursday, August 5, 2004 - 12:13amSanction this postReply
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Tom,

A few comments. First, we're not a corporation, which is a specific kind of business. Second, for-profit does not necessarily mean profitable. It's also a technical status, with various trade-offs.

SOLO doesn't currently have full time staff. We keep our costs low, and we've had a couple of products (with more on the way) and conferences. And there is the FreeRad.



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Friday, August 6, 2004 - 7:56amSanction this postReply
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Thanks for the answers Joseph.

------------------------------Tom Blackstone

http://tomsphilosophy.tripod.com


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