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Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by gkoberger on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:40PM (#24135307)
I don't know the details, but the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation have different budgets and legally have to spend the money on different things (since the Foundation is a non-profit). They can't just move money around like a normal company can.
Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by maxerickson on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:23PM (#24136455)
The corporation can spend money on whatever the hell. That's why they set it up.

You can infer from the foundation tax returns that most of the assets are held by the corporation: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-2018-fo...

It's the assets held directly by the foundation that have implications for their tax status, and they only move assets to that status as necessary.

Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by viro on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:24PM (#24137171)
"The corporation can spend money on whatever the hell. That's why they set it up." oh that is not true at all ... fiduciary duty doesn't work like that.
Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by maxerickson on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:50PM (#24138476)
There's no need to be so literal.

And conveniently, the people directing the Corp are the ones setting the agenda for the org (which that agenda is the thing the Corp has a fiduciary duty towards...).

Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:50PM (#24136060)
Well... can they fix that? Please? At least for the future so this doesn't happen again?

I'm not opposed to nonprofits creating systems to make sure donor money is handled appropriately, but it seems to me there's something seriously wrong with the current structure. In hard times, organizations generally need to focus on their core initiatives, not branch out even more!

Re:Mozilla Lifeboat by dboreham on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:07PM (#24136252)
Probably would mean paying $$$ tax and/or returning money to whoever donated it.