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I agree with the complaints but I also wonder how else Mozilla is supposed to financially support their work. It is an unfortunate reality that donations alone
by robbrown451 9y ago
I agree with the complaints but I also wonder how else Mozilla is supposed to financially support their work.
It is an unfortunate reality that donations alone don't tend to work on things of this scale. Humans don't work like that....most people are not going to send a significant amount of money to make an insignificant impact on browser quality. (i.e. if I donate $5000, would I even be able to tell the difference between the Firefox without my donation, and the Firefox with my donation?)
This is pretty basic game theory (Tragedy of the Commons, Prisoners' Dilemma, etc). Nobody wants to be the sucker when most people are being freeloaders.
So we have things like this. They are trying whatever they can do to get revenue. Bake shit in that increases their corporate sponsor's bottom line. Ugggh.
I don't have a solution (short of government grants and the like) but I wish more smart people would work on this sort of problem.