Star@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company."aus.socialexternal-linkmessage-square245fedilinkarrow-up11.15Karrow-down113 cross-posted to: lealternative@feddit.it
arrow-up11.14Karrow-down1external-link"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company."aus.socialStar@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square245fedilink cross-posted to: lealternative@feddit.it
minus-squarelaverabe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoMozilla is a non profit foundation, the corporation is owned by the non profit and exists for tax reasons only. They’re different than a regular corp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37000232
minus-squareDAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·9 months agoThe NFL was a non-profit until 2015. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a non-profit that stopped the free distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine. Non-profit status doesn’t automatically equal good but Mozilla has been good so far…for the most part. It has had its own controversies.
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minus-squareDAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-29 months agoNot what I’m referencing. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/ Oxford originally pledged to give their vaccine away for free but Gates convinced them otherwise.
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minus-squareDAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoCorrect. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!
minus-squarelaverabe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoWell fuck, I guess enshittification is universal. The only safe space is community foss/libre projects I guess
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoAnd only as safe as the audit it gets
Mozilla is a non profit foundation, the corporation is owned by the non profit and exists for tax reasons only. They’re different than a regular corp.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37000232
The NFL was a non-profit until 2015.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a non-profit that stopped the free distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Non-profit status doesn’t automatically equal good but Mozilla has been good so far…for the most part. It has had its own controversies.
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Not what I’m referencing.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/
Oxford originally pledged to give their vaccine away for free but Gates convinced them otherwise.
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Correct. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!
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Well fuck, I guess enshittification is universal. The only safe space is community foss/libre projects I guess
And only as safe as the audit it gets