That's meaningless, because they delegated licensing to HDMI® Licensing Administrator, Inc. And even if they are somehow a nonprofit: you are also not making any profit when all the money you retrieve via licensing fees is used to pay the royalties of the various patent holders.
Nobody cares if the mailing list where they discuss the upcoming specs is managed by a non-profit, the broader HDMI ecosystem is still a massive money grab.
Profit/non-profit isn't a big difference. Many non-profits are essentially businesses in practice (money spent/managed, the non-profit just a conduit to the for-profit companies that defacto own it), but just don't issue stock. A non-profit can act like this, and DOES. Non-profits exist in a capitalist context and inherit those norms. Again, this is why we aim for open standards.
Also a non-profit is just that, its not a charity. A charity is an entirely other classification and even those are regularly used and abused like this.
There is more than stock required to be non-profit. I suspect technically a non-profit could issue stock, though it is probably not something any would ever try.
Non-profit is a business arrangement where making money isn't the goal. There are many different versions of one though: many local clubs are a non-profit and they exist only for the benefit of their members.
you don't exactly need to be beaten with a hose. that said:
- psychological manipulation through prolonged uncertainty and withholding information
- dehumanizing conditions like freezing cells with inadequate blankets
- sleep deprivation
- physical suffering during a 24-hour transfer between facilities while shackled and confined in a prison bus
- humiliation and degradation particularly during pregnancy testing procedures where she was forced to squat over a communal toilet with others present
- arbitrary detention without any timeframe without clear legal justification despite having an approved visa and no criminal record
The German tattoo artist got 8 days of solitary confinement, like so many others in ICE detention, that ICE only ended after her mental breakdown and self-injury, and not out of ICE having respect for their own rules.
I looked up the history and you are completely correct. In my defense Raymarine was part of Raytheon long ago, and then a bunch of spinoffs and acquisitions happened.
The UAW puts it at 5-8%. Other sources put it higher, up to about 15%. But that's for combustion vehicles -- most sources put the labor component of EV's at 40-60% of that of combustion vehicles.
It generally includes the labor for sub-assemblies, but not for components. Components are sourced globally, so manufacturers in different countries should not be paying substantially different prices for components. Certainly sometimes they do, but that's generally a tariff issue, not a labor issue.
Not an expert, this is just based on most of an hour of random Googling.
A high school teacher once told me that the most expensive part of a car is healthcare and pension costs. Road and Track reported on this a little while ago, no idea what the situation is today.
