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I wish I could just buy out Mozilla outright so that they could you know, focus on building a browser. Alas, my wallets nowhere near big enough to do so. Leave all the business ventures to a completely different (named too) org. I grow tired of them starting something great and then stopping because they've wasted funds. Like oxidizing Firefox I was really excited for. Sadly they stopped while they had broken amazing…
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Mozilla ≠ firefox
Who is going to fund Firefox if not Mozilla? Maybe a new organization can pop up or maybe a new one won't.
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Last time I heard, Thunderbird has zero people on it for years but eventually they manage to afford to pay someone part time to work on it :smh:
Thunderbird is quite healthy and received $8.6M in donations in 2023[0] which is used to employ 24 people[1]. Unlike Firefox, donations are used to fund development. [0]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-repo... [1]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
Never heard of Fakespot, but Pocket is a loss. I don't use it as much anymore, but it was a very convenient way to keep my reading queue. I mean, honestly, it didn't really solve the problem for me completely, because I saved way more that I read, but at some point I relied on it heavily.
Hard to say if I cared a wit for pocket, but fakespot was useful.
I had no confidence in fakespot's ratings.
My assumption was that it would either teach fake reviews to get much better to be harder to identify...or it'd get sold off to some company that had a vested interest in keeping fake reviews around. I suppose this second possibility could still be the case! :)
This feels like yet another wake up call to only use open source software.
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It is the MZLA Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation a wholly owned part of the Mozilla Foundation.
How did they even get this corporation owned by a foundation situation? That just seems like some kind of tax trick.
[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/novo-nordisks-unique-structur...