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1. silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 05:04:51 JST silverpill

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   • ErC

   @erc I agree that LLC is a poor choice for any community-oriented project, but this is just some conference, no? Doesn't look like a big deal to me

   • ErC (erc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 05:04:54 JST ErC

     The corporatization of #Monero continues. Sad times for people who believe a community of people should not be guided (or held hostage?) by for-profit corporations.

     The absurd thing is the admission that a non-profit would be doable, but slightly more inconvenient, so for profit it is.

     In the past the Monero community managed to fight back attempts to transform collectives into corporations, like the attempted takeover of the community workgroup some years ago

     At the time people fought back and the attempt failed, but the community is not even close to be the principle-driven group that it was once, so i expect this depressing trend to continue and strengthen.

     We were supposed to change the world, but people decided the best way to do it is by building things the same way we always did.

     We wanted to get rid of banks, we created and supported crypto-banks (CEXes)

     We wanted to create money outside of the interests of states or corporations, we created corporations to manage the communities that should make this revolution.

     #Crypto has failed and Monero is on the wrong path, but hopefully this failure is laying the base for others, more ethically and politically minded, to take the original principles and put them in practice without falling in the same comfortable schemes that we were supposed to make obsolete.

     https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/415