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If more users donated to Mozilla, Mozilla wouldn't need to find other sources of money (primarily Google). Honest question: have you donated to Mozilla? And do
by chimeracoder 12y ago
If more users donated to Mozilla, Mozilla wouldn't need to find other sources of money (primarily Google).
Honest question: have you donated to Mozilla? And do you use Firefox? (If the answer to both of those is not 'yes', it's hard to claim that they should abandon their primary source of funding and rely solely on user support.)
- ngokevin 12y agoI don't think user donations could replace $300 million a year.
- chimeracoder 12y agoFirefox has 450 million users[0] - if every user gave just $1, that'd already outstrip the amount they get from Google. (Yes, getting every user to donate is logistically impractical, but it's useful to think of the per-user cost when talking about consumer software.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
- cpeterso 12y agoI think something like a "Firefox subscription", an automatic monthly donations like those offered by PBS and NPR, could be interesting. NPR calls this "sustained giving". [1] Many people don't mind donating if they are not nagged repeatedly. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/nprresearch/sustained-giving-results http://www.slideshare.net/nprresearch/sustained-giving-resul...
- prawn 12y agoInstead of touting "Free Download" on a large green button, why not just call it Download and then have a donate-what-you-want option there? Virtually no one's going to donate after the fact.