Since they have so much money to burn, why don't they support worthwhile OSS efforts (like SSL, for example)? The NSS library is supported by Mozilla and Red

Since they have so much money to burn, why don't they support worthwhile OSS efforts (like SSL, for example)? The NSS library is supported by Mozilla and Red Hat, mostly. There are tons of little tools and libraries that we use in *nix land, that could benefit from some $$. Mozilla is much more than just Firefox, Firefox OS and Thunderbird. Take a look at the hundreds of projects on https://github.com/mozilla/ https://github.com/mozilla/, for example. Mozilla should offer "Mozilla fellowships" or "Mozilla sabbaticals", where they support a developer for a year or two fulltime to work on their projects. There are many internships, community supports and developer support programs at Mozilla. The foundation also donated one million dollars to various prominent projects very recently: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2015/10/mozilla-launches-open-source-support-program/ https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2015/10/mozilla-launches-open... Most of Mozilla's work is done by volunteers anyways I don't know if this statement is accurate. There are over 1,000 people employed by Mozilla directly working full time on the various projects. disclaimer: I work for Mozilla.