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>If a fully featured app or service is free, then you are the product. Depends on the business model. Wikipedia, for example, is a non-profit. You can also th
by naravara 9y ago
>If a fully featured app or service is free, then you are the product.
Depends on the business model. Wikipedia, for example, is a non-profit.
You can also theoretically have a public benefit corporation that is structured to protect data privacy, but I don't know of any.
- leadingthenet 9y agoMozilla?
- naravara 9y agoI think Mozilla has some weird structure where it's a non-profit foundation that happens fully own a for-profit corporation. I'm not an expert on the topic, though, so maybe that counts? Probably depends on the state where it's incorporated. The only big PBCs I've ever heard of were hospitals and private colleges. But you are right that the way Mozilla is set up, it is focused more on pushing the technology and mission of the foundation forward rather than on delivering share price increases or dividends to shareholders.