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Guess who "collaborates" with criminal regimes, like saudi arabia.
Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
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Re: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
#22IMHO the EU should step in. Having a browser that is not controlled by big tech should be part of an effort to reduce the dependency on the US.
or to invest in Servo
Re: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe they will find out you don’t need $555M a year to make a web browser. First good step would be to fire that useless CEO.
Mozilla is much larger than the browser.
And I don’t care about anything but the browser. They should stop wasting money on things that I don’t care about.
Re: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
#24So who are going to fund them?
Sorry for being cynical, but this "petition" sounds like telling depressed people to "just be more positive." Sure, just find more revenue streams. Just be sustainable. It's so easy!
Re: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
#25IMHO the EU should step in. Having a browser that is not controlled by big tech should be part of an effort to reduce the dependency on the US.
How about not involving governments in how Firefox is run. Especially not those keen on backdoors and "Chat control".
It could be a stand alone association ruled by its members or a classic free-for-all whatever goes code talks FOSS project.
Re: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
#26Pressure exposes true colors.
Taking away the pressure from Mozilla will only hide the symptoms but not cure the desease.
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#27Not looking to grind an axe but facts matter in this case.
Let's look at Mozilla's financial statement for 2007 and 2023 [0][1]:
> Expenses
1. Program 'Software Development'
2007: 20.7M | 2023: 260M
2. Management 'General and Administrative' :
2007: 5.1M | 2023: 123M
I am purposefully excluding marketing and fundraising costs. Because arguably you can't get away from those expenses.
Let's ignore inflation and COL and ballooning costs, etc. If we look at just the ratio of expenditure. We have an NPO (on paper at least) that just went from spending a ratio of 4 to 1 between developers and managers to spending a ratio of almost 2 to 1.
I am not familiar with what is typical in American NPO's but I can't help but feel that my money will not be spent on the right stuff.
[0] https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-2007-audi...
[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-202...
Re: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
#28Nah, Firefox devs: It's time to ditch Mozilla and fork it.
That’s also a possible scenario!
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Re: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
#30IMHO the EU should step in. Having a browser that is not controlled by big tech should be part of an effort to reduce the dependency on the US.
As if centralization with one big company weren't enough, now we're not even satisfied with one country, but a block of them. Yikes.
Nope, run in the opposite direction. Unsuck from any teat.