Re:The cult of the free must die
by paul_f on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:04AM
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Mozilla brought in $450M last year because Google wanted to be the search engine on its free software. You can give software away and make money in other ways. Plenty of software companies do it and it's a perfectly valid business model. Small company does not "lose", and $450M is not small
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And a lot of this went for non-technical parts of the organisation, and technical talent got laid off.
Fucking suits.
Re:The cult of the free must die
by pessimizer on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:09AM
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Mozilla brought in $450M last year because Google didn't want to be involved in an antitrust action. Conflict between Mozilla and Google is keyfabe; Mozilla is virtually a subsidiary of Google.
I understood that this deal is now expiring?
Re:The cult of the free must die
by staticassertion on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:11AM
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It's a contract for a few years. They'll probably re-up it, the question is for how much money.
Re:The cult of the free must die
by newspheasant on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:21AM
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According to this report, they already re-upped it
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/08/13/0012243/mozilla-ext...
Oh wow. So from a financial standpoint they're not in a radically different position to earlier years (assuming between 10-20% more in other revenues), in fact seems as if they have approx 100M$ more coming in as revenue in comparison to the previous year of comparison (2018) [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
Then why in the name of space balls did they fire like 25% of their dev team?
Re:The cult of the free must die
by username90 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:31AM
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Because they they already re-upped it, why spend more money when you already got the rewards? That is what happens when a company doesn't care about the product.