> - Why do you need 1000+ staff to roll out an open source browser engine / browser and an email client? Writing fast moving mature Software for multiple platf

> - Why do you need 1000+ staff to roll out an open source browser engine / browser and an email client? Writing fast moving mature Software for multiple platforms, is not something you can do with three nerds in your spare-time. Web browsers are highly complex, and Firefox has still many historical grown baggage to improve and maintain. And let's be fair, their software has a very high quality-level, even we can dispute on the details. Whether 1000+ people are necessary for this, I don't know, but considering everything they do even in their core-area, it's not something which can be done with small budget. > If I go to most open source projects and say you can burn through 8M a year, most of them would agree they could build amazing things. Amazing by their perspective, but not by the standards of end-users. And 8 Millionen, that's around 666k per month, meaning you have either around 3-5 well paid workers who are worth that price, or 10-20 poorly paid workers, who are probably average competent at best. And this is nowhere near the number of people necessary for such a big project.