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Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (18 children)

And this is one of the many reasons I don't donate to Firefox. Firefox employees should really fork that project and make it better than what it is now instead of just being Google's dog + an excuse to pay millions to a single person and hundreds of thousands to random individuals, who have nothing to do with Firefox.

400M in cash could go to a lot of development efforts. They could rewrite Firefox entirely in Rust, make it run on any platform, move the needle on web technologies in a big way, hell, they could make their own damn phone with that kind of money, or even write their own competitor to ChromeOS.

But instead...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They tried making a phone already and it failed to gain steam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's worth noting that KaiOS, a fork of Firefox OS, has been successful - particularly in developing markets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is reassuring, I’ve been debating installing Ubuntu’s phone OS on my old Sony Xperia. It’s great that it’s not a complete bust to have a nice FOSS OS on phones. Mozilla just didn’t have the resources or wherewithal to follow through with Firefox OS and that’s just how it goes.

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