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Donations to the foundation don’t pay for Fx development. That’s under the Mozilla Corporation.

lnxg33k1 5y ago
I was completely not aware of this didn't even imagine something like that, but apparently it's so https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/fellowships-and-awards-partners/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/fellowships-a...
- emerged 5y ago
  You and probably the majority of donators. You’d think at some point that might be considered fraudulent on the part of Mozilla.
  - lnxg33k1 5y ago
    Yeah but who would have the guts the sue a company that has worked so much to improve the world? You should be one of those people who hoarded toilet paper to resell it overpriced during the start of the pandemic to do something like that
    - emerged 5y ago
      The ends justify the means? If they hold me up at gunpoint for donations should I just not complain because they do other things that inxg33k1 believes improve the world? I stopped using Firefox years ago because of such “improvements” they obsess over instead of stewarding one of the very few web browsers which could have helped keep the web open but is instead borderline controlled opposition.
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  - estebank 5y ago
    It is a legal requirement by US government that they can't.
    - reitzensteinm 5y ago
      I don't know if I agree with parent comment's concern. The what we do/what we fund pages are full of where the actual money goes. At worst, there's no disclaimer warning off people that arrived with a misconception. But if we were to buy the premise, whether Mozilla can't or chooses not to use the money for browser development doesn't matter in the slightest. And I think there's a pretty big citation needed on "they can't". Sure, they can't divert non profit funds in to the for profit corporation. But they could use it to build open source software with strategic alignment - like funding Rust.

I was completely not aware of this didn't even imagine something like that, but apparently it's so https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/fellowships-and-awards-partners/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/fellowships-a...

emerged 5y ago
You and probably the majority of donators. You’d think at some point that might be considered fraudulent on the part of Mozilla.
- lnxg33k1 5y ago
  Yeah but who would have the guts the sue a company that has worked so much to improve the world? You should be one of those people who hoarded toilet paper to resell it overpriced during the start of the pandemic to do something like that
  - emerged 5y ago
    The ends justify the means? If they hold me up at gunpoint for donations should I just not complain because they do other things that inxg33k1 believes improve the world? I stopped using Firefox years ago because of such “improvements” they obsess over instead of stewarding one of the very few web browsers which could have helped keep the web open but is instead borderline controlled opposition.
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- estebank 5y ago
  It is a legal requirement by US government that they can't.
  - reitzensteinm 5y ago
    I don't know if I agree with parent comment's concern. The what we do/what we fund pages are full of where the actual money goes. At worst, there's no disclaimer warning off people that arrived with a misconception. But if we were to buy the premise, whether Mozilla can't or chooses not to use the money for browser development doesn't matter in the slightest. And I think there's a pretty big citation needed on "they can't". Sure, they can't divert non profit funds in to the for profit corporation. But they could use it to build open source software with strategic alignment - like funding Rust.