ah, i see what you’re driving at. I’m not sure if I see Amazon.com becoming what it is now via a nonprofit model, but it’s plausible to me that could have worked for facebook. But I’m not sure if they could support the staff and hardware it takes to keep it operational using a donation-based model. Mainly, I’d rather get these products into existence than capture additional public value by open-sourcing them, and that seems like a tradeoff to me. what do you think?
It depends on the product. Another option is profit caps—I’ve seen businesses starting to adopt those, and I certainly will buy from those corps preferentially.
ah, i see what you’re driving at. I’m not sure if I see Amazon.com becoming what it is now via a nonprofit model, but it’s plausible to me that could have worked for facebook. But I’m not sure if they could support the staff and hardware it takes to keep it operational using a donation-based model. Mainly, I’d rather get these products into existence than capture additional public value by open-sourcing them, and that seems like a tradeoff to me. what do you think?
It depends on the product. Another option is profit caps—I’ve seen businesses starting to adopt those, and I certainly will buy from those corps preferentially.