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Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure (proton.me)

submitted 4 months ago by retiolus@lemmy.cat to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago

I think a publicly traded company works that way as they have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders to make money, but the non-profit (controlling) part of proton has no such duty as their primary directive is their mission. They said I’m mostly talking out of my ass so I certainly could be wrong