• Grapho@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    What the fuck would a non profit need to pull google level profits for?

    Mozilla should have been a gatekeeper for open web standards and made a browser that catered exactly to that. The rest is window-dressing.

    What did they do with the Google money, tho? Eye-watering packages for their MBA/Lawyer executives and compromise after compromise with DRM peddlers in the name of “market cap”.

    Fuck em, and let it be a lesson for other non-profits. FSF doesn’t seem to be any worse off for not paying cOmPetiTiVe rAtEs to get some clueless execs to betray the mission to chase trends and funds.

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      22 hours ago

      I don’t see how being a non-profit suddenly makes it cheaper to build a secure, modern and compatible browser. (Although I know lots of people underestimate how much effort that takes. But just consider that already Mozilla’s doing it for far less money than Google invests in Chrome, for example.)

      • qweertz (they/she)@programming.dev
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        12 hours ago

        Running a community-centred nonprofit is inherently more efficient resources-wise than paying managers and execs piles upon piles of cash in a for-profit scheme