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How can we as users provide funding for open software like Firefox, in the same way that Wikipedia receives crowdfunding? At the very least as a supplement to
by cangeroo 3y ago
How can we as users provide funding for open software like Firefox, in the same way that Wikipedia receives crowdfunding?
At the very least as a supplement to the money they receive from Google.
And even better, to fund more research projects, like their sponsorship of research into Rust and WebAssembly.
- crazygringo 3y agohttps://foundation.mozilla.org/en/?form=donate https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/?form=donate It's in the footer to Mozilla's website.
- lelanthran 3y agoYou can't support FF. You can only give money to Mozilla, who may or may not use it for FF. In actual practice, Mozilla grabs all the donations intended for FF and pools it with all donations, which then gets used for social justice programs.
- gobip 3y agoThe salary for the CEO of Mozilla is 6.9 million USD (almost 7 million). They fired developers to save money, and put all the money saved into the CEO's salary. I don't see Mozilla getting better anytime soon. https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18b6tdp/mozilla_ceo_received_69m_salary_in_2022_a_2m/ https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18b6tdp/mozilla_c...
- OJFord 3y agoMost recent layoffs (i.e. what I can easily search for) was 250 heads, just for easy numbers if we say they were all (or on average) earning $100k, then if they got rid of the CEO position entirely.. Mozilla could've kept 69 of them and only laid off 181 (plus CEO).
- cangeroo 3y agoInteresting. Of their budget, what's the cost of developing Firefox?
- drpossum 3y agoMozilla is poorly managed with an overcompensated CEO that likes to sprawl off in directions no one asked for that aren't Firefox
- skiman10 3y agoIs this still a valid complaint since they have a new interim CEO? I think we should wait and see what Laura Chambers does and then the new pick after this year.