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"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.social)
submitted 10 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Correct. I should have gone into more detail. Cheers!

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well fuck, I guess enshittification is universal. The only safe space is community foss/libre projects I guess

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

And only as safe as the audit it gets