Archived version, for posterity.
Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…
Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…
Mozilla and Firefox too…
Except Mozilla has declining revenues.
Possibly even less money in the future if the Google antitrust suit bars them from paying Mozilla to place their search engine first.
I mean, that can be even worse IMO, desperation can be just as bad as greed, even if the motives are very different
Yikes, that’s a scary thought
Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…
Isn’t Bluesky an open-source implementation of an open protocol? And isn’t Bluesky already a for-profit organization? The point is you don’t trust the corporation. You trust the availability of the code and the protocol specification. People should be setting up instances just like they did with lemmy.
