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I haven't kept up with Mozillas yearly reports for over a decade, but are you saying that they no longer rely 90% on search for income? And what is "investment"
by wodenokoto 2y ago
I haven't kept up with Mozillas yearly reports for over a decade, but are you saying that they no longer rely 90% on search for income? And what is "investment" here? Doesn't sound like actual revenue.
- notpushkin 2y agoMy bad – that figure was for the Foundation only. Foundation + Corporation was ~10 times higher (I suppose that’s the 90% from Google). Though it’s mind-boggling in any case. I’m sure there’s thousands of brilliant developers who would gladly work for Mozilla for like $50k/yr if it was truly independent. That’s 750 full-time devs from investment income alone (which was Mozilla Corp’s total employee count in 2020, so I assume that should be about right). (Investment here, I suppose, is what it says: they’re buying a bunch of stocks and use profits from these for their charitable goals. Kinda like endowment kind of thing.)
- pseudalopex 2y ago> I’m sure there’s thousands of brilliant developers who would gladly work for Mozilla for like $50k/yr if it was truly independent. I am not sure. Can you convince me with evidence?
- bagacrap 2y agoMaybe they could offer that amount in some very LCOL area, I guess? But browser and standards development is highly technical, not something you can easily outsource to some offshore sweatshop. So 50k/year is kind of an insult, and even the purest souls would have a hard time turning down 4-10x that compensation at Apple, Google, and other competitors. Not to mention, there are a lot of non payroll expenses to account for.