Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by RyanHamilton on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:20AM
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If this was a for profit company I could agree with your focus on profit. Their mission statement is: "Mozilla is a global nonprofit dedicated to keeping the Internet a global public resource that is open and accessible to all.". You could argue the importance of market share at some percentages but below ~5% has to be considered a priority one emergency, if your goal is to keep the internet accessible for all. If their market share fell below 1% they would have effectively almost zero ability to steer standards.
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Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:41AM
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> If this was a for profit company I could agree with your focus on profit.
There are two parts to Mozilla: a for-profit company and a non-profit company. They are separate. You are reading the mission statement of mozilla.org, not mozilla.com. Mitchell Baker is the CEO of the for-profit company, not the non-profit.
Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by wodenokoto on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:52AM
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Isn’t she chief lizard wrangler at both?
Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:57PM
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No. Mark Surman is the executive director of the non-profit (executive director is the term used for CEO at non-profits). She is the chair of the non-profit board, which is probably not a paid position (or paid very small token amount).
A non-profit company is not a zero-revenue company. It's a company that reinvests all profits into its designated cause. A non-profit org with a billion-dollar revenue is a great non-profit org as it can finance the work on its cause really well.
Re:Firefox on the Brink?
by wodenokoto on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:51AM
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It kinda is a for profit organization.
Basically all revenue is made through the Mozilla Corporation.