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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by DoingIsLearning on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:08AM (#43351175)
Again not diminishing Firefox's efforts but it's difficult not to compare with other _leaner_ open-source projects.

As an example the Linux foundation [0] had 270M in expenses in 2023. Of which even we aggregate international operations and corporate operations the expenditure is less than 21M in G&A equivalent activities.

[0] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/Reports/lf_annualrepor...

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by calcifer on Thursday March 13, 2025 @06:28AM (#43351896)
The Linux Foundation is neither a project nor open source. It's an industry trade group. I don't think there is any feasible comparison.
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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by DoingIsLearning on Thursday March 13, 2025 @06:36AM (#43351941)
Fair point actually, governance wise the industry partners are probably not a huge expense because they want a seat at the table anyway.
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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by wkat4242 on Thursday March 13, 2025 @01:27PM (#43355470)
The Linux Foundation is a bunch of corporate suits trying to steer Linux into their business interests. It doesn't have anything to do with the development really.
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