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by ilovenerds 1076 days ago
I'm not familiar with Urbit, but a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation," which I have to assume is a for profit company. Ethereum on the other hand is guided, but not owned or controlled by a non-profit foundation. Ethereum is a public utility and they have a mechanism for community involvement and contribution via Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIP). Hope that helps!
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yosoyubik 1075 days ago
Urbit has always been open source—currently under the MIT license [1]—and same as Ethereum it's also guided by a non-profit foundation, the Urbit Foundation [2] established in 2021.

[1] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt [2] https://urbit.org/overview/people-history

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humanizersequel 1074 days ago
>a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation,"

Where on the website do you see this?

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ilovenerds 1068 days ago
https://urbit.org/privacy

https://urbit.org/terms-of-service

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yosoyubik 1067 days ago
> Last Updated: September 24, 2018

This is very outdated and Tlon no longer operates/runs urbit.org but, in any case, the ToS says this: "The Site is owned and operated by Tlon", so the reference was to the website "urbit.org", not the Urbit project.

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