Currently it is a not-for-profit organization, though we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability.
See what happened to freenode recently, how well that worked out for them :)
That is the intention, and it says that in the blog article :).
> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.
Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.
This was another thing Burung Hantu wasn't interested in.
> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.
Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.
The site will remain run in the same way, it's just we won't have someone at the very top who is never around, never contributes and owns the domain.
Funding is transparently listed:
https://opencollective.com/privacytools
https://blog.privacytools.io/privacytools-io-joins-the-open-...