Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by dblohm7 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:35AM (#24120676)

While donating to Mozilla Foundation is a great cause [1], none of those funds go to funding Mozilla Corporation, and thus Firefox.

If you want your funds to go toward MoCo (and thus Firefox development), your best bet is to subscribe to Mozilla VPN or Pocket Premium.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by skyfaller on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:17AM (#24121191)

What does the Mozilla Foundation do if it doesn't develop Firefox? What do they spend their money on?

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by dx87 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:45AM (#24121601)

"The not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation supports open-source apps, web literacy curriculum, gender equality in tech and more."

Found on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by dom96 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:45AM (#24121583)

The salary of their senior employees[1]

1 - https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1217558588857544704

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by dblohm7 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:54AM (#24121731)

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by staktrace on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:35PM (#24122287)

Money is fungible and dollars are dollars. Donating money to the Foundation means less of the Corporation's dollars have to go to supporting the Foundation (which they do via dividend payments), and so more of the Corporation's dollars go to Firefox.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by dblohm7 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:44PM (#24122401)

I don't disagree with your concept in theory, but I also don't think there is any evidence to suggest that MoCo's trademark royalty payments (as IIRC that's how they are structured according the financial docs) to MoFo are adjusted based on MoFo's donations.

Has that been mentioned in a meeting somewhere?

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by staktrace on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:56PM (#24122568)

(301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24122250)

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