• Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Oh look we’re back to the “open source software can’t survive on its own without gobs of money and million-dollar CEOs wah wah wah” again.

    • sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      You say that as if we’re lying. Mozilla’s entire revenue is from the search deal. If it goes away, you can kiss the entire company goodbye. Not saying that OSS is inherently unable to survive or anything like that.

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      5 hours ago

      Fiy, the Mozilla Foundation is one of the highest rates charities on Charity Navigator.

      They don’t always make the best choices as far as product direction, but as a charity, they are quite respectable.

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      15 hours ago

      Wtf you on about?

      The grand majority of all costs for Firefox are in engineering salaries. And there is no million dollar CEO relating to the nonprofit’s expenses, that CEO is paid for from funds from the for profit organization.

      Browsers are CRAZY expensive to build and maintain. And teams of engineers are crazy expensive.