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Don't they pull in several hundred million dollars a year? Shouldn't they be able to hire enough staff to develop Firefox with that money?

• Sylos 10y ago
  Well, Google, Microsoft and Apple pull in several billion per year... And in 2014, Mozilla had expenses of 212 million for software development, so they definitely do invest most of their budget there. https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Financials_2014.pdf https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...
  • _Codemonkeyism 10y ago
    Sadly that report doesn't tell us where the 212 million went into, I would suspect not mainly in Firefox. Also it would be interesting what the 212 million of sofware development include from a payroll perspective, e.g. is it mostly developers, how much they are paid etc.
  • alphapapa 10y ago
    > Well, Google, Microsoft and Apple pull in several billion per year... Yes, but Mozilla doesn't also maintain the world's largest search engine, sell an operating system and office suite and gaming systems, or make computers, laptops, tablets, phones, and develop chips to run them on. All Mozilla does is make software. And they only have one primary product. If x hundred million dollars per year is not enough for them to do that, I don't think the problem is that they don't have enough money.