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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What the fuck would a non profit need to pull google level profits for?

Mozilla should have been a gatekeeper for open web standards and made a browser that catered exactly to that. The rest is window-dressing.

What did they do with the Google money, tho? Eye-watering packages for their MBA/Lawyer executives and compromise after compromise with DRM peddlers in the name of "market cap".

Fuck em, and let it be a lesson for other non-profits. FSF doesn't seem to be any worse off for not paying cOmPetiTiVe rAtEs to get some clueless execs to betray the mission to chase trends and funds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see how being a non-profit suddenly makes it cheaper to build a secure, modern and compatible browser. (Although I know lots of people underestimate how much effort that takes. But just consider that already Mozilla's doing it for far less money than Google invests in Chrome, for example.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Running a community-centred nonprofit is inherently more efficient resources-wise than paying managers and execs piles upon piles of cash in a for-profit scheme