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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 239 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Never ever ever ever ever give your work for free to a startup unless it's running under an open source model that guarantees even if they do go public, all that work remains openly available to everyone!

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nonprofits FTW

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, there are plenty of counter examples, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Prominent ones?

    Same for everything, including open source models

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    St Jude's Children Hospital and Goodwill off the top of my head.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can’t find anything wrong about St. Jude’s.

    Everything is bound to have some bad examples. OpenAI and RedHat were also under open source models.

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