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I'm pretty sure they are not making much in the way of money. That's part of the problem.
They make lots of money, Mozilla publishes their tax returns. Between mozilla nonprofit and mozilla corp they are very healthy in funds. In 2021 mozilla foundation, and the corporates it owns, had 1.1 billion USD in assets
I looked at this at first and thought "What? 1.3 million? That's crazy low what the heck" then I saw "in thousands" and I can't help but agree.
500 million per year from Google is "not much"? Or are you referring to something else?
Anti Commercial-AI license
Well, think of the poor CEO... /s