[jey]

The problem is that control of the company could be transferred to other actors, in which case the original founders' "intent" becomes irrelevant. So the best thing to do is to encode the intended terms explicitly in the contract.

[davidjgraph]

In most cases there's some clause saying "we can pretty much do anything to these terms, as long as we give you 30 days notice". They can be as explicit as they like, the next company can just change them.

It's not that I disagree with you, I'm just calling out what I view as "selective license goggles", which I find particularly ironic given the nature of the service in question.