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> There is also Wikimedia, Canonical, and Mozilla -- perhaps those 3 are less interesting since they have a non-profit mission tied to the internet-as-community
by amyjess 8y ago
> There is also Wikimedia, Canonical, and Mozilla -- perhaps those 3 are less interesting since they have a non-profit mission tied to the internet-as-community and FOSS.
Canonical is a for-profit company. They're also not fully distributed, either; I have a friend who moved to the UK a couple of years ago to work out of Canonical's headquarters.
- pixelmonkey 8y agoThat's interesting. My mistake, then. I had cited it from memory of talking to some Canonical staff during my own interview processes, where it seemed to me that it was fully distributed and driven by a non-profit mission (namely: sustaining salaries for F/OSS contributors).
- gowld 8y agoCanonical is incorporated for-profit but barely pays its bills after 14 years in business, and relied heavily on Mark Shuttleworth wealth and willingness to spend money on things he likes without turning a profit. (Shuttleworth sold his startup Thawte for about $0.5B in 1999 at age 26, and has less than that wealth now.)