[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Society
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Partners
I considered things like this as an original Mozilla person back in the day. Mozilla could have sold the Firefox organization or the whole corporation for billions when it had 30% of the web, but that would have been a huge violation o of trust so it was never even on the table.
That so many here are fans of screwing the world over for a buck makes this kind of comment completely unsurprising.
I'm very confused by your attitude towards that comment. Do you think that Mozilla's non-profit/for-profit split organisation was a bad idea?
There's rules to follow to prevent what is called "private benefit", which OpenAI most likely broke with things like their (laughable) "100X-limited ROI" share offering.
>It is a pretty common model [...]
It's not, hence why most people are misinformed about it.
1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/05/e...