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Gobbling up hundreds of millions of dollars to finance non-core missions and fat director bonuses while you sack the Servo development team might be a cause.
by LunaSea 1y ago
Gobbling up hundreds of millions of dollars to finance non-core missions and fat director bonuses while you sack the Servo development team might be a cause.
- jamespo 1y agoThey generated that money.
- behringer 1y agoHaha thats a good one.
- pessimizer 1y agoThe ads from a search engine that bought Doubleclick generated that money.
- jamespo 11mo agoYes, they pass a fraction down to other companies that generate traffic for them, it's a little known model.
- LunaSea 11mo agoNo, they don't. Firefox represents essentially $0 of revenue for Google because their market share is tiny and rate of adblock usage is high. The only reason Google gives money to Mozilla is because they don't want to get sued for monopoly.
- jamespo 11mo agoSource for this conjecture?
- LunaSea 11mo agoFirefox market share: 2.17% Firefox ad block use: 17.81% Remaining addressable Firefox market share: 1.78% So essentially peanuts. Especially since most of said users would have used Google anyway.
- jamespo 11mo agoSeems to me that percentage is commensurate with the "peanuts" figure Google pay them, vs their annual revenue.
- LunaSea 1y agoThey didn't, Google gave them most of that money and the community a bit as well.