Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi...
by DoingIsLearning on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:37AM
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> they've lost sight of what running a self sustaining business in this space would even look like
Get your facts right.
Mozilla Corporate receives 400mil a year from Google, for google search to be the default search engine. The engineering costs of Mozilla in 2020 were about 300mil. [0]
So in actual fact you could maintain the not-for-profit status, fire all the corporate staff and still sit on a trove of cash every year.
The google money will not dry out because it is the only CYA situation that Google has against an anti-trust case on Chrome.
There is absolutely no reason Mozilla could not maintain the not-for-profit status and tick along, like other foundations such as Linux, Gnome, Apache, etc.
Get your facts right.
Mozilla Corporate receives 400mil a year from Google, for google search to be the default search engine. The engineering costs of Mozilla in 2020 were about 300mil. [0]
So in actual fact you could maintain the not-for-profit status, fire all the corporate staff and still sit on a trove of cash every year.
The google money will not dry out because it is the only CYA situation that Google has against an anti-trust case on Chrome.
There is absolutely no reason Mozilla could not maintain the not-for-profit status and tick along, like other foundations such as Linux, Gnome, Apache, etc.
[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600206/mozilla-report...