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[–] 60 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

enshitification always makes sense. Hear me out.

  1. Company needs to make more money
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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    But it's a foundation, with a charitable goal....

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    So they are a company but also a foundation.

    How?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    Clever accounting, one entity invoices the other and whatnot. One entity could be the reseller for the goods the other one is producing for example. Similar arrangements (no need for a foundation, just invoicing between your own entities) like that are often done e.g to pay your taxes in a lower rate jurisdiction than where you earn your money. You could set up a company that sells stuff and another company to hold the IP and then pay royalties. Etc.

    ClosedAI is looking to do something similar, go from non-profit to for-profit. Personally I'm of the opinion that such a thing should warrant investigations and possibly indictments for fraud. Because it IS fraud, or at least false advertising. If I buy a Raspberry Pi, knowing that it's a foundation with a good cause, and the next day they announce they're starting a for-profit company to handle everything, that's very much false advertising, as the foundation model was be one of the factors in choosing which product to buy. If that makes sense.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Yes, companies need to make money. It's kind of what they do.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Yeah just like cancer needs to spread and grow. It's just what cancer does. It does make sense.

    But, never the less, we're still going to cut the cancer out someday.

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