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>Make a better browser and people will come. With magic money? Do you think mozilla employees and firefox employees should starve? Should they be making firefo

>Make a better browser and people will come. With magic money? Do you think mozilla employees and firefox employees should starve? Should they be making firefox entirely as charity? The other browsers are made by a GigaCorp that extracts a tax from pretty much everything on the internet, especially if you want to do any advertising, and another Megacorp that has billions upon billions of dollars in cash just waiting for a need and also extracts 30% on ANY financial transaction using their hardware. Imagine people pushing stupid hard for everyone to use Meta's MetaVerse instead of VRChat because VRChat once had an advertising ID in their code or something. Like sure, that's not awesome, but like, what the fuck is the alternative?

Nextgrid 3y ago
> With magic money? Do you think mozilla employees and firefox employees should starve? Should they be making firefox entirely as charity? Well they've got enough magic money considering the salaries of their C-suite, so short-term needs are absolutely covered. Long-term the Google subsidy will eventually dry up but focusing on an enterprise-grade browser (see my other comment here) is worth a shot. Charity isn't actually that bad of an idea either, since Mozilla Foundation is actually a non-profit (but somehow owns a for-profit company that pays insane salaries to execs? Shady as fuck). Developing a browser that is actually focused on the user fits with their purported mission and will do more to improve the web than all the auxiliary projects/initiatives they've done so far.