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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by rowyourboat on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:07AM (#15371666)
> They squandered a lot of money, while neglecting their core business (their web browser).

They are not a business, they are a non-profit organization. And their aim is not to simply build a better browser, but to preserve the open web, and put control in the hands of the users. Granted, phoneOS was a failure, but given their mission, they had to try.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by bigbugbag on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:13PM (#15375255)
They are a non-profit organization owning a for profit corporation making tens to hundred millions dollars a year selling users data to search engine.

Notably this non-profit organization had provisioned $15 millions anticipating that the IRS might get into how a non-profit was actually for profit, it eventually happened and the foundation ended up getting a $1.5 million fine for their google income before setting up the for profit corporation scheme[1].

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/google_still_mozill...

The non-profit organization foundation

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by mal808 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:38AM (#15371749)
I really appreciate that they tried phoneOS, It was very disappointed that it didn't work out.
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by minusf on Sunday October 01, 2017 @04:39AM (#15376938)
non-profits and research organisations can also have a "core business", it's just a different word normally for the main thing they were created for.
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