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And ? Obviously it's not the for-profit structure which would benefit from donations. VC money is one way of financing things (which has the cash burn rate issue), public money and donations is another, why would changing from one model to another be something bad?
@tcit Clearly the foundation is just a PR front for the commercial entity.