[codeflo]

Other commenters are quick to point out that commercial interests always win, which is somewhat true, but misses an important point: OpenAI wasn’t originally a commercial company. This is basically someone stealing a nonprofit organization — structurally not dissimilar to someone robbing the funds a charity for children with cancer.

I don’t get why people shrug, or even celebrate this, instead of demanding jail time.

[atq2119]

Many people like to think they're on the same team as winners, even if those winners couldn't care less or even have contempt for them. Acknowledging the naked truth of power is too depressing for them.

See also: Sports, politics.

[tivert]

Also in this case, in this forum, I think you also have some people who are suffering from a kind of techno-fetishism that desperately wants to see realized one of the technologies they read about in sci-fi, so they're willing to align with anything or they think will do that.

[bboygravity]

If this is legal than isn't this the best way to do a startup from now on?

[anal_reactor]

I honestly wasn't aware that OpenAI was registered as non-profit, and I assumed it's a normal company with a misleading name.