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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by staktrace on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:26PM (#24122164)
This is a bit of a silly argument, because 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 (Edited to add: 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 @12:32PM (#24122250)
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) are adjusted based on MoFo's needs.

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 @12:45PM (#24122408)
> Has that been mentioned in a meeting somewhere?

Not explicitly, but I do recall meetings where the announcement was along the lines of "we are choosing to make a dividend payment to fund the Foundation work..." which implies some amount of adjustment based on needs.

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