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Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton (proton.me)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Proton's mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we're more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“ …ways you can organize a business that makes literally impossible to legally do these things. ”

Not disputing this is true, but could you provide some examples?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They're talking about making it a nonprofit, I'm sure. People working for nonprofits can have good salaries so its not like they're not good to work for, and any profit can be reinvested into the company or donated to other nonprofits. But you can't sell the company to a for-profit (I don't think), and the ownsers can't take all of the profit for themselves.