"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."

Star@sopuli.xyz · 1 year ago

"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."

800XL@lemmy.world · 1 year 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!

Engywook@lemm.ee · 1 year ago

never give a corporation your labour for free.

People should have known this from the beginning.

hperrin@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

New life lesson: never volunteer for a for-profit company.

Flying Squid@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

But then how would spez ever be able to take Reddit public?!