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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by cbsmith on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:37AM (#37944368)
> I mean Google started as a non-profit and basically defined the search engine and it's tools. Then it went private, continued briefly, and has slid more and more into yet another corporate rent-seeker ever since.

Wait, when was Google a non-profit?

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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by ToucanLoucan on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:39AM (#37944385)
Started as a research grant-based program at Stanford in 1995. Three years later it became a company after building the basic product to a launch-ready state.
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Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by cbsmith on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:42PM (#37963077)
Ah, you mean before it was called Google.

Honestly, the non-profit engine was not nearly as good as the one the subsequent for profit business created.

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