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Exactly not. The non-profit is the foundation. Mozilla-the-company is owned by the foundation, and has the job of making products. Specifically Firefox. All of
by bradley13 1y ago
Exactly not. The non-profit is the foundation. Mozilla-the-company is owned by the foundation, and has the job of making products. Specifically Firefox.
All of the activism, all of the politics belong in the foundation, not in the company. Which is the reason for my question: WTF is the company doing with 750 employees? They need to run a website, they need to coordinate with Google, they need to maintain their code (and coordinate pull-requests). That sounds like 30-40 people to me, not 750.
- oblio 1y agoA browser is big, let's not underestimate that. Chrome probably has hundreds of developers. But Chrome has to integrate with a million things. A top notch browser looks like it would need just a few low hundreds of developers.
- jalapeno_a 1y agoEvery non-profit wants to be culture activists so they don’t have to actually deliver anything but press releases and blog posts.
- chneu 1y agoLike the Wikipedia foundation. Wikipedia itself is easily funded for perpetuity. The foundation needs millions every year to continue their philanthropy.
- irvinfly 1y agoGoogle could have much more than 750 on their whole chrome team. That’s why all other browser company is doing things on top of webkit/blink/chromium. Browser, layout engine, js engine, the standard, is just that complicated.