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They rarely are, but Mozilla is very much the child of tech billionaires, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask for some help :)
by codezero 6y ago
They rarely are, but Mozilla is very much the child of tech billionaires, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask for some help :)
- freshsqueeze 6y agoNetscape may be. Mozilla is the child of some influential hacking community that spun off, back in the early 2000s that then found a lifeline in Google ad money. Since that phase passed, they've still siphoning off those laurels for the next two decades.
- codezero 6y agoI worked for Red Hat in 1999 and am pretty aware of the landscape of the early Internet and software, but always up for some corrections - my billionaires comment was a bit tongue in cheek, I'm not sure the early Mozillans are actually billionaires.