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Lumifer comments on Google vs Wikipedia, for-profit vs not-for-profit - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: Schmoo 08 April 2014 02:42PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 April 2014 05:36:05PM 1 point [-]

It is true that not-for-profits and the government have a lot in common.

That wasn't really the point. The point was that all the arguments for having non-profits control access and use by for-profit companies work as well or better for having the government control that access and use.