[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe]

I think one solution would be to always have the parent company iname n the children company. This way you don't have github by "Github by microsoft". But any links in between should appear if a separate legal entity.

1. It makes it clear how few powerful people are owning everything.

2. It makes it obvious there's something wrong when you see that the 30 different bottles you can buy in front of you are all from coca colla

3. It makes it very obvious that there's something fishy about "chocolate chips by a france by b luxembourg by c switzerland by d ireland by big conglomerate by mondelez international"

[Sophira]

I think using the term "by" like that at all is going to lead to serious confusion.

As we all know, GitHub is not "by" Microsoft (as in, written by them). It's under their control now, and sure, they've made a lot of changes, but the actual code was written before Microsoft purchased them.

[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe]

I meant it more in the sense of, as you said, "controlled by".

But really it could be anything else including new symbols.

You see, whatever you use would become instantly SO ABUNDANT that this symbol would get a whole new meaning.

[genewitch]

I am for this proposal. The huge charts that show companies like RJR/PM, Unilever, J&J, nestle are obnoxious and give the illusion of choice.

I recently (last year) found out that nestle does not have an interest in Purina livestock feed, only the pet feed. It made shopping for feed a lot easier, but I'm still wary. At least Smucker makes pet and animal feed.

I am a firm believer in boycotts, usually indefinite. Nestle, Samsung, and General Electric and all their subsidiaries are my current ones. No one can hold me accountable for any malfeasance by any of those companies as I refuse to give them any money.

[rowanG077]

I don't see how it matters how, when or by whom the code was written.

[astrange]

> 1. It makes it clear how few powerful people are owning everything.

You own Microsoft. It's a public company.

[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe]

It's not because anyone can buy a fraction of microsoft, that I have actual control over it. Come on, there are moguls who have millions of times more control over them.

Scale matters.