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Why 500? For example, https://leadiq.com/c/mozilla/5a1d88fe2400002400628c85/employee-directory https://leadiq.com/c/mozilla/5a1d88fe2400002400628c85/employ... e
by zihotki 2y ago
Why 500? For example, https://leadiq.com/c/mozilla/5a1d88fe2400002400628c85/employee-directory https://leadiq.com/c/mozilla/5a1d88fe2400002400628c85/employ... estimates estimates that only 40% of the employees are engineering. And they are all around the world so US salaries don't apply.
Also the question is still open, how many of those people are relevant for Firefox development. There are a lot of people working on other projects of Mozilla Co.
Mozilla tries very hard to not to answer those questions. They could have made a separate fund for Firefox development just like they did for Thunderbird. For comparison, Thunderfird team was 24 people in 2022 and development costed $2 million.
Better save your efforts into making sense of Mozilla's shady politics and economics and invest effort into promoting https://ladybird.org/ https://ladybird.org/ - a truly independent browser developed from scratch by a non-profit.
- nine_k 2y agoMy idea was to show that even if we use rather conservative estimates, with some safety margin, running Firefox development on users' donations / subscription looks very viable. Also, donating to a non-profit is tax-deductible in the US, so some donations can be larger as a tax optimization.