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#2>[...] wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. Funds will be reserved for use in the Thunderbird project. [...]
Why doesn't Firefox have this?
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#3>[...] wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. Funds will be reserved for use in the Thunderbird project. [...] Why doesn't Firefox have this?
I’d venture it is because Firefox is developed by a for-profit corporation with hundreds of millions in revenue.
So the split is: you can donate to the non-profit organization, while the for-profit corporation only handles taxable income.
The reason why it is split is due to taxes. Mozilla created the corporation after getting in trouble with the IRS.
Edit: I haven’t kept up with Thunderbird for a very long time, but it looks like they’ve also moved to be developed by a for profit corporation, but a different one then the one that develops Firefox, so different people making different decisions. Also, donations to thunderbird are no longer tax deductible.
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#4> Contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions
Why is this? I thought the Mozilla foundation owned this and it's a non profit
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#5> Contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions Why is this? I thought the Mozilla foundation owned this and it's a non profit
They moved it over to MZLA Technologies Corporation last year, which is a for profit, so they could monetize it.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-moves-to-monetize-thun...
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#6> Contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions Why is this? I thought the Mozilla foundation owned this and it's a non profit
They moved it over to MZLA Technologies Corporation last year, which is a for profit, so they could monetize it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-moves-to-monetize-thun...
> by moving the project away from its foundation into a corporate entity they will be able to monetize the product and pay for its development easier than before.
Non profits also are able to monetize products and pay out employees.
There must be some other reason for the move?
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#7No.
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#8I use Thunderbird, and have for a very long time. Unfortunately, the new development and progress is gradually breaking more and more extensions, making it less useful to me as time goes on.
Bizarrely, the donation page thinks I'm in the UK, when I'm almost as far as possible away from there.
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#9I use Thunderbird, and have for a very long time. Unfortunately, the new development and progress is gradually breaking more and more extensions, making it less useful to me as time goes on. Bizarrely, the donation page thinks I'm in the UK, when I'm almost as far as possible away from there.
Lemme guess, Australia!?
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#10I pay for the Owl extension [0] which allows me to use my university's MS Exchange account with Thunderbird. I don't understand why Mozilla don't offer this themselves though, is it too complicated to put the effort in given the size of the userbase? Or is there some reason it has to be proprietary and they're against releasing proprietary software? I really appreciate Owl, but I'd much rather just pay Mozilla directly for it.