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Something similar. I was a pretty regular doner to Mozilla for many years. I stopped because Mozilla spends money on lots of stuff I don’t care about and not on

Something similar. I was a pretty regular doner to Mozilla for many years. I stopped because Mozilla spends money on lots of stuff I don’t care about and not on the browser. I hope this works out for them. But I’m not sure the elevator pitch for Mozilla as a charity. Why do people donate to them?

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
To play devil's advocate: If Mozilla were purely focused on doing good for the internet, and had a funding problem that threatened their ability to do that, it's possible that carefully investing money in places that do some good and gives them returns is a good way to try and solve both problems at once. Not that I have any faith in them. But this could be a good thing.
- prepend 4y ago
  It definitely could be a good thing. But it’s like if Doctors Without Borders/MSF started a soup kitchen in DC. Soup kitchens are good things, but if I donate to MSF I want my money to go towards a specific cause, not domestic soup kitchens. There are already charity index funds for people who want to donate.
leeroyjenkins11 4y ago
They gave grants to change master/slave terminology in documentation. After that, I can't donate and assume the won't wizz away my money on some stupid endeavor.
- pyuser583 4y ago
  I remember when BLM was becoming a thing. I was working with a rapidly scaling concurrent system. We had already gone through every variation of “master” and “slave” and had code using it to describe the various relationships. “Slave” was a worker whose behavior was exclusively and directly defined by the “master”, “minions” had more autonomy, etc. Eventually the terminology expanded and lost all sense and reason. Just our own in-house jargon. If we could do it over we would have chosen something different, but we were fighting for solvency at that point. COVID really messed stuff up.

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago

To play devil's advocate: If Mozilla were purely focused on doing good for the internet, and had a funding problem that threatened their ability to do that, it's possible that carefully investing money in places that do some good and gives them returns is a good way to try and solve both problems at once. Not that I have any faith in them. But this could be a good thing.

prepend 4y ago
It definitely could be a good thing. But it’s like if Doctors Without Borders/MSF started a soup kitchen in DC. Soup kitchens are good things, but if I donate to MSF I want my money to go towards a specific cause, not domestic soup kitchens. There are already charity index funds for people who want to donate.

leeroyjenkins11 4y ago

They gave grants to change master/slave terminology in documentation. After that, I can't donate and assume the won't wizz away my money on some stupid endeavor.

pyuser583 4y ago
I remember when BLM was becoming a thing. I was working with a rapidly scaling concurrent system. We had already gone through every variation of “master” and “slave” and had code using it to describe the various relationships. “Slave” was a worker whose behavior was exclusively and directly defined by the “master”, “minions” had more autonomy, etc. Eventually the terminology expanded and lost all sense and reason. Just our own in-house jargon. If we could do it over we would have chosen something different, but we were fighting for solvency at that point. COVID really messed stuff up.