• sgtlion [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    I never really understood why mozilla insists on being a corporate entity in the first place. Tons of (if not most?) it’s development comes from volunteers already. Just scale down to doing basic development moderation and rely on donations / collaborate with other open source orgs.

    Mozilla is the most profit-oriented non-profit org I’ve seen.

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      I think you’re grossly overestimating the share of volunteer contributions if you think it might even be over half. It’s amazing what contributors do, but the vast majority, and especially thankless-but-important work like web compatibility or security, is done by paid staff.

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        In terms of contributed code, obviously yeah. But there’s a lot more work involved in development than just that, plus all the basically necessary addons.

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          20 hours ago

          That is true, but all that wouldn’t be able to survive if Mozilla were to significantly scale back development.