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Revenue is secured. They have another deal with Google worth ~500M a year for the next few years. But for growing it and for the future of the browser that’s T
by gigatexal 6y ago
Revenue is secured. They have another deal with Google worth ~500M a year for the next few years.
But for growing it and for the future of the browser that’s TBD imo
- TimSchumann 6y agoWhy would google fund a direct competitor unless they thought it was to their advantage? I don’t see how this helps Firefox Users.
- gibolt 6y agoIt is to their advantage. They get all the search ad revenue
- MattGaiser 6y agoGoogle’s business is search engine and advertising, not browser market share. Also helps with an anti-trust case.
- TimSchumann 6y agoIf you don’t think Crome is a substantive part of google’s core business, I think we’re gonna talk past each other this whole time.
- fastball 6y agoChrome is a loss leader though.
- aero-glide 6y agoHow does Chrome make money though?
- coliveira 6y agoGoogle wants to control search. If they don't pay, some other company will pay for the search traffic.
- DarthGhandi 6y agoI really don't understand how that is not enough to fund Firefox and Servo for well over a decade.
- WesolyKubeczek 6y agoThe CEO needs those sweet bonuses that come from short-term revenue spikes. But hey, she's not some homophobic bigot, so everything is good, and everyone should feel perfectly safe at the workplace as they are being downsized!
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- fmajid 6y agoMozilla had a lot of useless parasites. None of the mouth-breathers who organized the witch-hunt against Brendan Eich had any meaningful contributions to Firefox or Thunderbird, they used to work on irrelevant projects like OpenBadges. They seem to be gone, but I suspect they are laying off the wheat and keeping the sycophantic chaff. There are only 263 contributors listed on Mozilla’s git repo, and many are not employees.
- mvn9 6y agoLet me iterate on my comment from the Manifesto submission [1] Their number one point is: >The Internet is an integral part of modern life—a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole. Mozilla can use the internet and spend their billions on young third-world talents and offer them a job that educates them in web- and browser development. They only have to be in the bay area if they want copying Google to be their number one priority. There could be thousands of engineers working on Firefox and servo with the benefit that 1) they would develop content that would be guaranteed to work on Firefox and secure Mozilla's position. They would have a path to a growing user base that would lead to an even bigger Google income. 2) there would be a career path without the need for immigration for third world talent, which would end colonial economy dependencies and make the world a better place. With such an engineering force, they could enter plenty of markets and won't depend on the Google money in the future. The good thing is, Firefox and Servo is open source. If Mozilla doesn't want to do it, some other player can. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165284
- freshsqueeze 6y agoDefinitely secured for the executives and directors. They have very little incentive to make things work and continue to hire their friends and pay themselves lavish salaries.