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Re:Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell... by lxgr on Monday March 10, 2025 @10:18AM (#43320930)
That's certainly a fair point, but currently even the (non-)possibility of shareholder ownership and for-profit takeovers seems to be on shaky ground with what OpenAI is trying.

I think we should definitely ask for both (i.e. no executives profiting from excessive salaries and no future possibility of any dividends in any form to any owners), but I'd take at least one instead of neither any day.

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Re:Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell... by maltelandwehr on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:39AM (#43321759)
Both of these conditions are true for Ecosia. They have bylaws that prevent excessive salaries.

In 2020, no one there made more than 100k as far as I know.

Source: I interviewed at Ecosia for an interim CPO role.

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