• spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Jack Dorsey doesn’t “own” Blusky, he just gave them grant money in the beginning to kick things off, and is one of the board members.

    “Prior to the seed round, Bluesky’s website described the company as a Public Benefit LLC owned by CEO Jay Graber and other Bluesky employees. Post-seed round, the company describes itself as a public-benefit C Corp.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(social_network)#Company_history

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      5 months ago

      This is what so called open ai does. It isn’t open even in the sense of open group Unix. I just feel pity for American tax payers as elections are near. Both of these people have significant say in US/World politics.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 months ago

        he literally has no leadership stake in it… but considering it’s open source, literally anyone can make a pull request if they want to, even dorsey