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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)
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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 238 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Never ever ever ever ever give your work for free to a startup unless it's running under an open source model that guarantees even if they do go public, all that work remains openly available to everyone!

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 53 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nonprofits FTW

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, there are plenty of counter examples, unfortunately.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Prominent ones?

Same for everything, including open source models

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

St Jude's Children Hospital and Goodwill off the top of my head.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can’t find anything wrong about St. Jude’s.

Everything is bound to have some bad examples. OpenAI and RedHat were also under open source models.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You keep bringing up open source, why? All I did was say that being a non profit isn't as good an indicator as you might think. How does open source factor in it?

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago

I'm saying that even if it's not universal, it's often one of the better indicators.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

"Our non profit pays the ceo $1,900,000 a year. Yaaay"

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would not do any unpaid work for anything that was not straight up copyleft.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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