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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 10 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 238 points 10 months ago

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!

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 53 points 10 months ago

I would not do any unpaid work for anything that was not straight up copyleft.

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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