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Well, I don't think the add-on promotion/spam was funding the expenses of the whole corporation. Perhaps they can augment their business model with donations in
by nkkollaw 9y ago
Well, I don't think the add-on promotion/spam was funding the expenses of the whole corporation. Perhaps they can augment their business model with donations instead of crazy initiatives that alienate their users?
I also wonder if--once they figure out what percentage of users donates--donations couldn't be predictable.
By basing their business model on donations (at least in part), their focus would shift to getting more users (or making existing users like them more), which would in turn mean creating a better product. I don't see how that would not be a huge gain for everyone.
DISCLAIMER: I have never run a corporation though, so I have no idea :-)
- pryelluw 9y agoThose a good points. These sort of experiments seem to be them trying to find a revenue model that works. The way they are handling it sends a signal of desperation. Which should be the question here. Why does Mozilla need to do this? Why dowe the tech community praise open source in one hand and abandon it on the other?
- nkkollaw 9y agoThey probably are, desperate. The phone project has been a pretty bad hit for them. They so seemed to be able to be successful again with FF 57... I guess it was luck.