The article sites Mozilla as a "precedent in tech for a nonprofit spin out," but that's really not relevant at all. The Mozilla Foundation took over the Naviga

The article sites Mozilla as a "precedent in tech for a nonprofit spin out," but that's really not relevant at all. The Mozilla Foundation took over the Navigator codebase that Netscape open-sourced, the Mozilla Foundation having been created for that sole purpose. What happens with Twitter's software is moot because Twitter's value comes from its community.