"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."Star@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.world – 1130 points – 6 months agoaus.social241Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentMozilla 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=37000232The 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.deleted by creatorNot 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.deleted by creatorCorrect. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!deletedWell fuck, I guess enshittification is universal. The only safe space is community foss/libre projects I guessAnd 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=37000232The 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.deleted by creatorNot 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.deleted by creatorCorrect. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!deletedWell fuck, I guess enshittification is universal. The only safe space is community foss/libre projects I guessAnd only as safe as the audit it gets
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.deleted by creatorNot 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.deleted by creatorCorrect. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!
deleted by creatorNot 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.deleted by creatorCorrect. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!
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.deleted by creatorCorrect. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!
deletedWell fuck, I guess enshittification is universal. The only safe space is community foss/libre projects I guessAnd only as safe as the audit it gets
Well fuck, I guess enshittification is universal. The only safe space is community foss/libre projects I guessAnd 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.
deleted by creator
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.
deleted by creator
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