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however are the cost of developing a web browser and hosting an internet encyclopedia ran by volunteer comparable ? mozilla use paid labor, engineer who are ve
by aucisson_masque 2y ago
however are the cost of developing a web browser and hosting an internet encyclopedia ran by volunteer comparable ?
mozilla use paid labor, engineer who are very expensive.
wikipedia it's mostly hosting a html page and a few media.
Yet wikipedia has much more user to whom it can show the donation nag when mozilla has a much more limited userbase.
i think that mozilla taking google money to put them as default search engine is fine, people who care about privacy are allowed to change it whenever they want.
- janc_ 2y agoIn 2023 the Wikimedia Foundation had 700 paid employees/contractors working for them. At the end of 2023 Mozilla Corporation had 964 employees and Mozilla Foundation had 118. So the difference isn’t that large…
- aucisson_masque 2y agoGoogle - mozilla contract alone gives mozilla 500 000 000$. Wikimedia budget is 170 000 000$. I'm sure that developing a browser is more expensive, would mozilla be able to make it work with at best a third of the budget ? I don't think so..