Imagine how much open source software could be developed for $500 million/year. What the fuck has firefox done?
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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They've paid their CEO.
Try to get MORE money so that they can pay their CEO.
500 million would pay for almost 5000 full time developers.
Fuck developers, we need more "leadership"
Hopefully Mozilla won't die until Ladybird or Servo is ready 😅
I don't think the EU will let it die. Maybe Mozilla dies and Firefox gets reborn as a EU (ZENDIS?) project.
- Finish off Firefox
- Break up Chrome
- Profit
Send another Luigi Mangione
Their pants are being the sun again
Ceo makes how much?
CEO is paid for from the for profit. The majority of costs are engineering salaries for Firefox.
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Oh look we're back to the "open source software can't survive on its own without gobs of money and million-dollar CEOs wah wah wah" again.
Fiy, the Mozilla Foundation is one of the highest rates charities on Charity Navigator.
They don't always make the best choices as far as product direction, but as a charity, they are quite respectable.
Wtf you on about?
The grand majority of all costs for Firefox are in engineering salaries. And there is no million dollar CEO relating to the nonprofit's expenses, that CEO is paid for from funds from the for profit organization.
Browsers are CRAZY expensive to build and maintain. And teams of engineers are crazy expensive.
Thank you for repeating the talking points.
Thank you for making no effort to engage in conversation and instead trying to shut it down because it doesn't agree with you.
Insinuating that I'm repeating talking points as a way to dismiss my opinion is the kind of bad faith comments no one wants here.
You started your quest for good faith engagement with "Wtf you on about?"
You're not just a corporate simp, you're a hypocrite as well. I don't want to engage in conversation with people like you, there's no point.
And what percentage of Mozilla's income goes towards Firefox?
Mozilla sucks as much as Wikipedia when it comes to funding
You say that as if we're lying. Mozilla's entire revenue is from the search deal. If it goes away, you can kiss the entire company goodbye. Not saying that OSS is inherently unable to survive or anything like that.
Then die. Open source software wasn't created to generate revenue.
Well goodbye mozilla it wasn't great knowing you. Hopefully you are able to fuck over the devs and golden parachute your c-suite bastards one last time.
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