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Take note Bluesky fans: Your “benevolent” controlling nonprofit can quickly become a for-profit if enough cash is thrown at the governing board…

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    12 hours ago

    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…

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      11 hours ago

      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.

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        11 hours ago

        I mean, that can be even worse IMO, desperation can be just as bad as greed, even if the motives are very different

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      Yikes, that’s a scary thought