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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by emilsedgh on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:23AM (#24131295)
There is a massive difference between KDE e.V and Mozilla.

KDE e.V does not fund any development. It's just there to help with legal matters, organizing conferences, sprints etc.

KDE's development is primarily by volunteers and a handful of developers paid by various interested companies.

These companies have historically included TrollTech/Nokia/Digia/Qt Company, Red Hat, Novell (Suse), Canonical, and nowadays mostly Blue Systems,

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by bscphil on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:21PM (#24138247)
> KDE e.V does not fund any development. It's just there to help with legal matters, organizing conferences, sprints etc. KDE's development is primarily by volunteers and a handful of developers paid by various interested companies.

Right - my question is what would happen if Firefox development moved to basically the same model. A sibling comment to yours claims 50 full timers isn't enough to develop a browser, so maybe it wouldn't work.

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