Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality

Re:Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality by craftyguy on Saturday November 17, 2018 @11:53AM (#18476260)

> Working together is the only way to take back tech from the corporate overlords. We need to support Mozilla's efforts to liberate critical technologies like Voice to text via Mozilla DeepSpeech.

I don't think that fighting back with specific technologies and products (which all come and go) is a good solution. It needs to be encoded in law. If mozilla makes a thing that is 'free and open', and it becomes popular enough, what happens when a Google or Amazon decides to throw serious money at acquiring it (or even Mozilla) so that they can control it? Nothing would prevent that.

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Re:Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality by Digit-Al on Saturday November 17, 2018 @12:52PM (#18476527)

Can a non-profit organisation be acquired by a 'for-profit' organisation? I've no idea on laws in this area, but it seems unlikely. I can't see any of the big four trying it anyway. Even if it was legal it looks like a massive PR disaster.

[edit: found the following link] https://www.501c3.org/who-really-owns-a-nonprofit/

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