That would be a trap. It's healthier for a non-profit to have many small funders than a few large ones.
replyexactly, the only reason Mozilla exists today is as a legal shield against an anti-browser monopoly suit against Google. that's the product they sell, and Google is paying hundreds of millions per year for this valuable service
replyI thought google pay Mozilla so they don't set the default search engine to something else (they same way Google pay Apple for Safari) and so Google continues to dominate and makes money of ads.
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replyIf Google didn't pay hundreds of millions, Microsoft would.
replyIf Google just wanted them to exist and didn't care about profiting off of the search traffic they wouldn't partner with Mozilla.
Part of the promise of open access and open science is that the information is free and open to all. Including robots.
replyI submit to open things because I want my material to be openly available. If I wanted restrictions, I would submit to gated journals.
Papers submitted to arXiv under its most permissive license should always be free, as in beer, speech, freedom. For researchers that contribute to it, that is the intention for a reason. It is to serve public and corporate good without restriction.
replyThis isn't me siding with AI companies by the way; it's a slippery slope argument.
> It is to serve public and corporate good without restriction.
replySometimes those two are in conflict, such that it will not be possible to satisfy both simultaneously.
as if they would pay.... they would pirate the contents as they already did
replyThey’ve never paid for any content?
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