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Maybe this a stupid question but why does Mozilla even need a separate Corporation with top heavy (and fairly inept) execs and CEO? Mozilla the _Foundation_ is
by DoingIsLearning 6y ago
Maybe this a stupid question but why does Mozilla even need a separate Corporation with top heavy (and fairly inept) execs and CEO?
Mozilla the _Foundation_ is the recipient of donations, why can't the developer teams work under the foundation directly, as they would for an NGO? Maybe my ignorance but I assume that is more or less the model of the Linux Foundation?
- kamikaz1k 6y agoThere's some content in the Mozilla Foundation wiki page: "Unlike the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is a tax-paying entity, which gives it much greater freedom in the revenue and business activities it can pursue. From 2004 to 2014, the majority of revenue came from a deal with Google, which was the default search engine in the Firefox web browser." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation?wprov=sfla1
- DoingIsLearning 6y ago> which gives it much greater freedom in the revenue and business activities it can pursue With the risk of sounding cynical that sounds like business talk for "we need a corporation so that ...we can do things". Again why is it that they are unable to develop Firefox under a Foundation structure? Why could they have not done the deal with google via the foundation? If it is a tax aspect why could they have not created a corporation just to handle the financial deal without all the overhead structure of execs and board C-levels?
- fakedang 6y agoHow would such deal making be hindered for a non-profit entity? It's not like that deal is a highly variable cash flow for them to meet profit targets or something.