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As a Mozilla employee, I can say that this is a fairly accurate assessment.
by dblohm7 6y ago
As a Mozilla employee, I can say that this is a fairly accurate assessment.
- glandium 6y agoExcept for the part about Firefox not making any money. Firefox is making most of the money.
- ChrisSD 6y agoIt gets a fixed amount of money from Google for using them as the default search engine. But what I meant was Firefox has no means to actual generate an income in its own right. Mozilla have tried. The reactions have not been good. The money from Google is practically a donation at this point. It's not exactly an altruistic one but it's not exactly a pure business transaction either given Firefox's current market share.
- geektips 6y agoWhat will happen to this donation if the outcome of the anti-trust is against Google ?
- vbezhenar 6y agoIs it even possible to donate money to Firefox development and not to greedy CEOs?
- ChrisSD 6y agoYou can't donate to Mozilla Corp full stop. Besides which Firefox users are strongly opposed to "nags" in the browser as Mozilla have found. Even wikipedia, with it's massive reach and yearly nags, "only" makes ~$120 million. Firefox could never hope to reach anything like that from donations alone and it needs many times that number to keep pace with Google Chrome's practically unlimited funds.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoSend money to employees
- dblohm7 6y ago> It gets a fixed amount of money from Google for using them as the default search engine Your first bad assumption is that the amount of money is fixed.