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Re: Donate mozilla

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Post by mason240 »

vdaniuk wrote: post #38
mason240 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't think it's a bit silly to say that building a product or tool is the same thing as engaging in government?

Ah, but politics isn't limited to governmental affairs, it is everywhere: communities, technical committees and standard groups. Also some projects contribute more change to the structure of the society than most governments. I would say that linux and *bsds had a much more pronounced impact on global affairs than most countries governments.

Ah, but now you've made the term "politics" meaningless, as what I had for breakfast falls under your new definition that encompasses everything.

Re: Donate mozilla

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Post by cballard »

SFjulie1 wrote: post #34
admax88q wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If C compilers are such a problem then developers should move to better languages. It's not the 70s anymore.

No language other than C and FORTRAN have correct numerical libraries with a decent amount of speed. Would you like the next plane that will make you travel to have the math done in javascript? Would you like your pacemaker to fry 17W/h for a V8 engine and do you need mozilla embedded in it ? Would you feel safe with nuclear plants control on the cloud? Does a space probe rather needs support for an oauth2.0 or corre…

The idea of those things being built in a language without memory and good type safety (no ability to cast everything to void*) should terrify you.

Re: Donate mozilla

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Post by chimeracoder »

Kiro wrote: post #31

OT but what are they using to accept donations? I'm about to set up a donation page on a project I'm running and been looking for solutions. What do people recommend?

> OT but what are they using to accept donations? I'm about to set up a donation page on a project I'm running and been looking for solutions. What do people recommend?

Previously I worked at two different non-profits which needed to answer this same question. Both times, we chose Stripe, because it ended up being the best combination of simple for us to set up and fast for donators to use[0].

(Disclaimer: I now work at Stripe, but I'm answering your question based on my previous experiences as a Stripe customer, not in any official capacity).

[0] https://stripe.com/checkout

Re: Donate mozilla

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Post by newhnuser1 »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #2

Their FAQ ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Donate#Don.27t_Mozilla_products.2C_... ) contains pretty important information. In particular, it answers why one should donate when Mozilla Corp makes money through corporate deals (e.g. Google and Yahoo search commissions). The answer is that all the money Mozilla Corp makes is reinvested back into Mozilla Corp (salaries etc). The Mozilla Foundation -- a non-profit which wholly…

I used to donate five dollar per month for different free and open source software or foundations, I've given numerous such five dollars to Mozilla. However, Mozilla project is dead to me now. Firefox is getting objectively worse (XUL removal, Pocket etc.) and the Mozilla project lost when they carve into the bullies when the CEO was forced to resign for some random donations. I don't if you donate to Hitler, it's his personal money, what do you care. Mozilla cannot champion the open web. The open web is dead.

Instead donate to OpenBSD or FSF.

Re: Donate mozilla

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Post by mconley »

javipas wrote: post #45

Two donations made. First, the money ($10). Then, the post ( http://theunshut.com/2015/11/30/saving-mozilla/ ). We'd be in a much different world today if Mozilla never existed. If any contributor/employee at Mozilla here reads this, THANKS.

contributor/employee at Mozilla here. Thank _you_.

Re: Donate mozilla

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

tosseraccount wrote: post #11

Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don't need my money any more.

I stopped donating as well, and I used their contact link in the donation page to explain my reasons: I disagreed with hounding Eich out of his job, and if they want any more donations from me, they first must hire him back.

Re: Donate mozilla

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Post by newscracker »

There's a lot of stuff that Mozilla does, but I wish there were a way to donate and say "try your best to allocate my money for project X" within Mozilla (Corporation, which I now understand is not the one supported by donations). While Mozilla Corporation seems to primarily focus on Firefox and Firefox OS, I would like to see more attention and effort devoted on the following:

1. Mozilla Thunderbird to get a lot more attention and a strong roadmap (something like the now defunct Mozilla Messaging initiative).

2. A good high end Firefox OS phone that is widely available and gives a good enough competition to Android and iOS, even though it's quite late and it may not have an apps collection like the other platforms do.

3. Reviving Persona/BrowserID, which many people here and elsewhere have asked for. From recent discussions I do understand this is not easy to do, but we need someone knowledgeable and available to take the lead and have Mozilla's brand pushing this for a wider reach.

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