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>But will we be well served by that in the long run? Mozilla brought in $3.25 BILLION in revenue over the last 10 years. If they'd saved/invested a majority of
by marcinzm 6y ago
>But will we be well served by that in the long run?
Mozilla brought in $3.25 BILLION in revenue over the last 10 years. If they'd saved/invested a majority of it then they could go for decades without any further revenue. The business model was sound if they didn't decide to waste money.
- munk-a 6y agoWasn't their business model mostly "We hope that Google keeps subsidizing us for no apparent reason?"
- marcinzm 6y agoAnd it worked amazingly well given that they've received over $3 billion from Google. Had they then used that money to plan for the gift horse dying it would have worked out for decades more. But the people overseeing it wanted to build an empire rather than a sustainable foundation.
- pwdisswordfish0 6y agoThe payouts are neither "subsidizing" nor "for no apparent reason". Do you think the Mozilla–Yahoo deal was also an act of charity? It's baffling that people think that the arrangement between Mozilla and Google is unique. Google is paying royalties to Mozilla for driving attention to Google properties, just like they do with their other partners who aren't named "Mozilla".