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> Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status I'm thinking 500M/year i
by BearOso 2y ago
> Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status
I'm thinking 500M/year is enough to pay for a lot more developers than they currently have. Even half that should be enough to do more than they are. Where is all this money going?
- Ferret7446 2y agoIt's going towards a lot of controversial things unrelated to Firefox development or any open source software development by any reasonable standard. Here's one attempt at breaking down their finances: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
- oaththrowaway 2y agoThat was fascinating. Thanks for posting that
- magicalist 2y ago> That was fascinating No it wasn't? They itemized some budget items worth less than a million dollars in total, and then, for each entity getting part of that money they admitted they had no idea who they were or what they did for Mozilla (but one of them had abortion rights mentioned on their blog!) Incredibly lazy "expose" trying to be a twitter files.
- oaththrowaway 2y agoWhy is a company that relies on donations and Google to prop them up pay hundreds of thousands of dollars on that? That's not interesting to you at all?
- ericjmorey 2y agoThe non-profit owns the for-profit. The for-profit pays out profits to the non-profit. Non-profit uses that money for things they think are in line with their values. Where is the issue?