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A startup? why not a team inside Mozilla? Will this startup build open source stuff?

• orra 4y ago
  > Will this startup build open source stuff? It's right there, in the exact same subheading that mentions being a startup: > A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem Presumably being a startup may allow them more financial freedom, or less bureaucracy.
  • jraph 4y ago
    > open-source AI ecosystem Ah, right, I must have skipped this. I don't know how, I was looking for it. I hope it says like this though, the fact that it is an independent startup does not inspire me much confidence. OpenAI started as a non-profit committed to open source, this failed miserably.
    • orra 4y ago
      I mean, I understand your scepticism given OpenAI. OpenAI was misleading from the start, even before they changed from non-profit to "capped" for profit. Hopefully being spawned from Mozilla gives this new outfit a better ethos.
• input_sh 4y ago
  Mozilla has a somewhat unique structure in which they have companies fully owned by a foundation. Internally, they refer to them as MoFo (Mozilla Foundation) and MoCo (Mozilla Corporation). They can't monetize a product as a foundation, but they also can't accept donations as a company. So they came up with this clusterfuck in which a foundation has subsidiaries, but all the profit from them goes back to the foundation. (IANAL, I have no clue how this works.) I'm guessing this is gonna be another corporation under the foundation, separate from MoCo (which makes Firefox). Therefore, Firefox and others won't be impacted by what happens to this.
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