Electric Sheep on Nostr: In the early days of the net, most online projects were not-for-profits, working with ...
In the early days of the net, most online projects were not-for-profits, working with a shared legal entity (eg FSF for GNU Project, SiPI for Debian). Some of the more high-profile ones were able to start their own Foundation (eg Mozilla, Wikipedia, Archive.org, Linux). The move to starting new ones as VC-funded, for-profit "startups" was the Original Sin of the current surveillance nightmare.
The unsolved problem is, how else can we get enough funding to start new projects that need fulltime work by people with highly sought after specialist skills?
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