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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mozilla needs a means of making money if anyone hopes Firefox or Librewolf to exist in the long run.

Mozilla Corp needs a means of making money if they want to continue paying their directors millions of dollars a year. The software projects, not so much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yes, Mozilla makes enough from search engine royalties to perform its original mission. But it got too much money from those royalties and bloated itself into a lumbering hydra.

jwz » Mozilla's Original Sin

In my humble but correct opinion, Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

  1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
  2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
  3. There is no 3.