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Non-profits find it culturally difficult to pay Google-level salaries to developers perhaps?
by pja 13y ago
Non-profits find it culturally difficult to pay Google-level salaries to developers perhaps?
- numbsafari 13y agoThat's certainly part of it. Non-profits generally cannot compete with Google in terms of cash. But are there other ways for them to try and attract or otherwise develop talent? Perhaps their current model is insufficient. It's interesting to see that Mozilla has become more involved with Samsung as a technology development partner. Perhaps that is one model.
- pja 13y agoThe Mozilla Foundation gets $300 million annually from Google: They can certainly afford to pay some developers Google level salaries if they choose to.
- numbsafari 13y agoOkay, so if it isn't about the money, then what is the reason for losing so many developers to Google? Or is the idea that Mozilla has been losing key people to Google (as mentioned in the OP) not legitimate?
- Ygg2 13y agoIf I am to hypothesize, I'd say they are tired of Mozilla's way of doing stuff. But I have to ask to put some hard data behind this, because I hear it a lot, and I don't see much evidence for it.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI think its more that non-profits find it financially difficult to pay Google-level salaries to developers.
- pja 13y agoSorry, I thought it was common knowledge that the Mozilla Foundation gets a huge income stream from Google. $300million / year until 2014 according to Wikipedia.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI'm not sure where the $300 million number comes from (yes, I know you said "Wikipedia", but there are lots of pages on Wikipedia, and neither the Mozilla page nor the Firefox page supports anything close to that number, nor does Mozilla's most recent annual report -- in fact, Mozilla's total annual revenue is only around $160 million.) And the whole point of Google paying Mozilla is that that money is less than the search revenue Google derives from people using Mozilla's browser, which also suggests that its less per user than Google would derive from people using Google's browser -- or, IOW, that the the Google has more to gain by spending additional money on development, assuming they acheive as much in terms of attracting users.
- pja 13y agoIs there a Wikipedia equivalent of 'Let Me Google That For You' ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation You can see their income statement from 2011 on their webpages: TechCrunch reported them here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/15/mozilla-releases-annual-report-for-2011-revenue-up-33-to-163m-majority-from-google/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/15/mozilla-releases-annual-rep...