Yeah, people want a spotless FOSS project run entirely on donations. It's silly, and I'd wish people started waking up to the realities of the world. You can st

Yeah, people want a spotless FOSS project run entirely on donations. It's silly, and I'd wish people started waking up to the realities of the world. You can still do a decent job while living according to them. The strange thing is that it shouldn't even be a timing thing all that much, a bunch of SaaS apps were already running by 2015 and subscriptions were becoming a more normal thing. Even Office 365 had been a thing for five years at that point, Dropbox and Evernote for eight. But I definitely remember the hatred, and I was one of the haters back then. Maybe the difference is that the initial Firefox userbase came more from FOSS people where there's more of a purely altruistic expectation, while I at least approached new browsers more from an IT startup culture angle, wanting to support organizations that do good things more than hanging onto moralisms.