Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by internetter on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:30PM
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Of Mozilla's $653 million in 2023 income, $496 million was spent, but only half was on development ($260). Fair enough. But realize mozilla does not exclusively develop a web browser. Instead, they also make Pocket, Firefox Relay, Firefox VPN, Mozilla Monitor, AI products, ect. So probably only 1/3rd of their income is going to browser development, which is pretty bad.
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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by Suppafly on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:13PM
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>So probably only 1/3rd of their income is going to browser development, which is pretty bad.
Only because you assume that they should only be working on browser development.
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by whatshisface on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:47PM
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They were expressing their own opinion, that's not an assumption. The relevance of opinion to nonprofit organizations is mediated through donation or other forms of support.
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by Suppafly on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:33PM
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Sure but their opinion seems informed by their flawed assumption that a large software company that makes a browser is primarily only a browser company despite that not being the reality to situation. Life is easier if you interact with reality as it actually is instead of arguing against a version you've made up in your head.
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by BearOso on Thursday March 13, 2025 @09:21AM
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> Only because you assume that they should only be working on browser development.
Why not? This isn't Oxfam, this is Mozilla. To an outsider, the assumed point for all these other endeavors was to be profitable to provide more money for browser development. When that money doesn't primarily provide for that something seems sketchy.