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Not sure if anyone realizes this, but Mozilla is not really an open source thing. It's a company that happens to be a nonprofit. It deploys resources and runs i
by programminggeek 11y ago
Not sure if anyone realizes this, but Mozilla is not really an open source thing. It's a company that happens to be a nonprofit. It deploys resources and runs itself like a Silicon Valley company.
It's not just a bunch of dudes in their basements writing code. They have like $330 million in annual revenue. They are sitting on like $90 million in cash.
Mozilla isn't about software for its own sake or just for the sake of the web. They are about self preservation and Persona wasn't going to keep them alive, so they killed it.
Mozilla is a company. That is what companies do.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoFrom what I understand, there are two arms to Mozilla... Mozilla the company (sometimes referred to as MoCo) and the Mozilla Foundation (sometimes referred to as MoFo). Again, from what I understand, MoCo is the not-for-profit company supporting the work of the Mozilla Foundation. The Foundation has an ethical mission to improve and protect the web. EDIT: Here's a quote from the Mozilla Foundation homepage (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/): "Many of Mozilla’s products are developed by the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Corporation functions as a self-sustaining social enterprise — money earned through its products is reinvested into the organization."
- mlinksva 11y agoI've got plenty of quibbles with Mozilla (including their handling of Persona) but "open source thing" and "company" are not mutually exclusive. We need more entities with lots of resources doing almost exclusively open source.