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Are all non-profit organizations good? What stops Signal from becoming for-profit in the future?
by neiman 6y ago
Are all non-profit organizations good? What stops Signal from becoming for-profit in the future?
- awestroke 6y ago> "[...] we've structured the project as a non-profit entity, so it can never be bought, has no investors, and isn't "owned" by anyone. We did this because we wanted to be "for" something other than profit, and we wanted to make sure the organization was only incentivized to create something that is in the best interest of the people who depend on it." https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/comment/gikrk2p https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/comment/...
- neiman 6y agoYes, but I have structured my message so it can never be criticized :-) Their intention is good, but I fail to see how it ensures that Signal, the project or the management of the app, would never fall into bad hands. Promising such a thing is somewhere between naive and misleading.
- thekyle 6y agoGood point. OpenAI was a non-profit, but then they changed to be for-profit and were acquired by Microsoft. Same could happen to Signal.