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Of Wikipedia can survive on donation, why not Firefox and MDN?
by goalieca 5y ago
Of Wikipedia can survive on donation, why not Firefox and MDN?
- contravariant 5y agoFirefox might survive, but the salaries of the people in charge of that decision might not.
- dandotway 5y agoBoom. "Mozilla Firefox Usage Down 85% but why are Exec’s Salary Up 400%?" https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-execs-salary-up-400/2050/ https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-e...
- kbelder 5y agoFirefox could, I think. I don't think the Mozilla Foundation could. And that's the rub, at least to those in charge at the Mozilla Foundation.
- seoaeu 5y agoTo avoid significant layoffs they'd something like 10% of their user base to donate $20/year. I'm far from an expert on nonprofit finances, but that strikes me as a tough but potentially doable goal
- mulmen 5y agoThere is no single piece of software I use more than Firefox. At $20.00/month it would be a bargain. Assuming it wasn’t a dumpster fire.
- prepend 5y agoTheir cost base is too bloated. The reason I stopped donating to Mozilla is because they have too many people not doing things I think are important and are paying their executives too much.
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