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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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