“A republic, if you can keep it.”

  • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Google pays mozilla iirc around 400m a year, loosing 85% of that yeah, that sucks, sure. but yeah, there is enough to sustain firefox and thunderbird and some other things. If not, something is dreadfully wrong.

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      1 month ago

      The numbers you have quoted so far don’t make a dent in the 400M though - we haven’t even reached 1% yet. How much do you think Mozilla is spending on Firefox? How much of that is “extra” per your back of the envelope math?

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        1 month ago

        Appologies, I am not a tax auditor, I don’t have enough spare time to go comb through mozilla’s finances to list out every single expense mozilla has. If mozilla can’t make do on that funding, they maybe they deserve to shut it’s doors for good afterall.

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          1 month ago

          Sorry, you aren’t a tax auditor, but you are out here making claims. Try defending them?

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              30 days ago

              You are saying there is all of this wasted money, but as soon as you are asked for evidence, it is all “I’m not a tax auditor”. Defend your claims!

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          I don’t think there’s anyone on planet earth who can build a browser at a budget of, say, 2 million USD annually. See also: Ladybird and Servo not being anywhere near ready.

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            1 month ago

            good thing there would be a lot more then 2m usd left.

            Servo and Ladybird are progressing at an extremely rapid speed, using them as an example isn’t a good one IMO.