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Thing is: You can't easily donate to Firefox. One can send money to the Mozilla Foundation, which is a political organisation (where I share many of the goals,

Thing is: You can't easily donate to Firefox. One can send money to the Mozilla Foundation, which is a political organisation (where I share many of the goals, but still spend my "political" money elsewhere) not to Mozilla Corporation, who are the developers.

cxr 4y ago
It's true that donations to Mozilla Foundation don't fund Firefox. > Mozilla Corporation, who are the developers Mozilla Corporation is a corporation. If you want to send money to developers who work on Firefox, you can. Better if you do it for the ones who are not Mozilla Corporation employees—although this is more difficult than it would have been in the past, owing to Mozilla Corporation's successful play to accumulate most development and decisionmaking power while alienating volunteers.
- johannes1234321 4y ago
  As an individual, looking to spend a handful of bucks from Europe all I can do is buy Mozilla VPN or donate to the foundation. For larger sums they might send me a sales rep and figure something out, but not for the sums I'd consider. And finding relevant individuals isn't easy either. So for now I am happy Firefox is being worked on continuously for so many years for free. It's my default browser from back when the predecessor was Netscape Navigator 3 Gold via opensourcing and renaming.
  - cxr 4y ago
    > all I can do is [...] No, as you acknowledge, you can also send money to another individual who already did or is currently working on something that you like and that you want to incentivize them to keep doing. Alternatively, there's almost certainly some way to get Igalia (or someone in it) to accept your money and make sure they know exactly what it's for. > And finding relevant individuals isn't easy either. Since they're right out in the open, records of who contributed what is pretty easy to parse for a developer looking at a bugtracker or a commit log. GitHub Sponsors seems straightforward enough (or conspicuous enough, at least; I don't even really use GitHub and I'm well aware of its existence).
    - johannes1234321 4y ago
      Thanks for pushing me to check again, will dig a bit to see if I find something/somebody.

cxr 4y ago

It's true that donations to Mozilla Foundation don't fund Firefox. > Mozilla Corporation, who are the developers Mozilla Corporation is a corporation. If you want to send money to developers who work on Firefox, you can. Better if you do it for the ones who are not Mozilla Corporation employees—although this is more difficult than it would have been in the past, owing to Mozilla Corporation's successful play to accumulate most development and decisionmaking power while alienating volunteers.

johannes1234321 4y ago
As an individual, looking to spend a handful of bucks from Europe all I can do is buy Mozilla VPN or donate to the foundation. For larger sums they might send me a sales rep and figure something out, but not for the sums I'd consider. And finding relevant individuals isn't easy either. So for now I am happy Firefox is being worked on continuously for so many years for free. It's my default browser from back when the predecessor was Netscape Navigator 3 Gold via opensourcing and renaming.
- cxr 4y ago
  > all I can do is [...] No, as you acknowledge, you can also send money to another individual who already did or is currently working on something that you like and that you want to incentivize them to keep doing. Alternatively, there's almost certainly some way to get Igalia (or someone in it) to accept your money and make sure they know exactly what it's for. > And finding relevant individuals isn't easy either. Since they're right out in the open, records of who contributed what is pretty easy to parse for a developer looking at a bugtracker or a commit log. GitHub Sponsors seems straightforward enough (or conspicuous enough, at least; I don't even really use GitHub and I'm well aware of its existence).
  - johannes1234321 4y ago
    Thanks for pushing me to check again, will dig a bit to see if I find something/somebody.