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IMHO Mozilla is missing out majorly by constraining themselves to the development of open source software, rather than services. With everything moving to the c

by ttul 9y ago

IMHO Mozilla is missing out majorly by constraining themselves to the development of open source software, rather than services. With everything moving to the cloud, why doesn’t Mozilla build an awesome email cloud to compete with google but with perhaps better privacy and encryption features? They could charge for this to recover operating costs and remain a “non profit”.

pbhjpbhj 9y ago
>They could charge for this to recover operating costs and remain a “non profit”. // AIUI they could locate in the UK and charge as much as they like above the cost price and remain a charity. They couldn't pay shareholders as a charity however.
Ajedi32 9y ago
So... a ProtonMail clone?
- ttul 9y ago
  Sure, why not?
  - Ajedi32 9y ago
    Seems like a lot of effort just to recreate something that already exists.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> They could charge for this to recover operating costs and remain a “non profit”. Whether or not such charges were only to recover operating costs, they'd probably be treated as “unrelated business income” and thus taxable, at the gross amount, if Mozilla retained it's charity status. It would make more sense to have the non-charity subsidiary do that. Of course, finding the kind of money it would take to go head to head with Google would be a challenge in any case.