> Ultimately any company that makes money is not a tech company because pure technology on its own does not make a business. Making money is what the _company

> Ultimately any company that makes money is not a tech company because pure technology on its own does not make a business. Making money is what the _company_ part of "tech company" is about ... right? It sounds like you want to imagine a world where making tech for non-business purposes is more normalized. I also want to live in that world. But I think perhaps we're so far into a world where tech to be used by an open audience (as vs e.g. secret defense tech) is entirely the province of for-profit enterprises that people have ceased to consider that the players in tech need not be companies.