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Does anyone who shares this criticism have a reasonable, realistic plan for how Mozilla can make money? There's a very large payroll keeping this project alive,

• funkyy 11y ago
  If you cannot monetize core product create some additional ones that will bring you revenue. They do not need to make money from browser, but they can make money by using this platform to promoting other, paid products.
• scrollaway 11y ago
  Pocket is not monetized. The sponsored tiles happened to be, but the symptoms are not related to greed... which arguably is even scarier.
  • detaro 11y ago
    Well, apparently there is a "revenue sharing agreement" with regards to Pocket, despite the previous statements that Pocket didn't pay for the integration.
    • dao- 11y ago
      Pocket didn't pay for the integration, period. Now, whether there's money flowing as a result of the integration is an interesting question. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681622
• sangnoir 11y ago
  The question is how much money and at what (ideological) cost? Employing people is not Mozilla's core mission. As the recent Wired article[1] says "...the Mozilla Corp. must still find ways to make money so it can pay the people to develop Firefox. But if its money-making schemes stray too far from Mozilla’s ideological roots, there will be little to distinguish Mozilla from every other Silicon Valley outfit" I hold Mozilla to a higher standard, just as Mozilla ought to. 1. http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-web-needs-it-the-most/ http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-we...