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> short of some truly benevolent benefactor pushing tens of millions of dollars per-year into a competing foundation.

TBH, there's no shortage of new billionaires that could do this. If they committed to it hard, they might be able to get it to break even after a while. Google pretends that default search engine rights on firefox are worth half a billion per year. They have to be worth some fraction of that.




there's a lot of things that could happen if only there were a concerned billionaire that didn't care about profit

none of those things seem to ever happen. if you are not one of those billionaires start thinking of another approach




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