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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by marten-de-vries on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:54PM (#15941591)
No, they're not in it for money. In the end (the foundation owns the corporation), Mozilla is a non-profit.

They need money to achieve their mission though: maintaining a browser (in a landscape of evolving security challenges, performance & web standards) and research (e.g. projects like Rust, Servo & pdf.js originated that way) is not cheap. And currently it mostly comes from search engine deals. If they cannot get a similar one, it all collapses.

I can see why they try to diversify their income. That said, I don't agree with the way they do it here.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by jessaustin on Saturday December 16, 2017 @09:02PM (#15943535)
"Non-profit" just means that shareholders don't profit. Nonprofits offer many opportunities for executives to personally profit.
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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by arkh on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:33PM (#15942915)
If they want to diversify they can work on other projects making money instead of fucking up their current userbase.

IMO coding missile software to pay for those projects would be a lot more ethical than what they're doing. Yeah I consider the ad industry and its privacy crushing consequences worse than weapons almost never fired.

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