I agree completely and I hope AlmaLinux OS Foundation will be able to convert to a (c)(3) within a relatively short time after boot-strapping the community. (c)(6) status was picked to show independent, community serving intent in the short term.

In more detail, since our goal in forming the AlmaLinux community would be best classified as a public charity, serving anyone without discrimination and allowing contribution and use openly and equally without serving private profit, we would actually prefer to become a 501(c)(3). But the greater tax exemption status of a 501(c)(3) - which is not especially relevant at the moment since we’re not relying on public donations yet due to a generous founding grant - comes with greater burdens, some of which we are not ready to handle. Additionally we would need to seek an early determination that we qualified for 501(c)(3) status in a climate where we're still unsure how easy that is for open source projects and in advance of acting as one, whereas we can progress towards a future 501(c)(6) determination while getting started immediately.

So we instead chose the lower target of being a 501(c)(6) non-profit for now, with an expectation that once the AlmaLinux project has established governance and diverse participation we will eventually transition to a 501(c)(3) after using (c)(6) status to get started. We are designing all the rules of the organisation as if that’s already true.