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I never really understood why mozilla insists on being a corporate entity in the first place. Tons of (if not most?) it's development comes from volunteers already. Just scale down to doing basic development moderation and rely on donations / collaborate with other open source orgs.
Mozilla is the most profit-oriented non-profit org I've seen.
I think you're grossly overestimating the share of volunteer contributions if you think it might even be over half. It's amazing what contributors do, but the vast majority, and especially thankless-but-important work like web compatibility or security, is done by paid staff.
In terms of contributed code, obviously yeah. But there's a lot more work involved in development than just that, plus all the basically necessary addons.
That is true, but all that wouldn't be able to survive if Mozilla were to significantly scale back development.