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ray@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 年前

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla

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Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla

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ray@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 年前
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Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that's just for starters.
  • Michael Damsbo Lyngs@fosstodon.org
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    @poVoq @ray

    What really? I did not know this. Any articles you can refer to us is this speculation?

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      I don’t have articles. But this is the full text of the article I originally linked to https://pastebin.com/6D2D5iiW

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        @ray
        The article kind of ends on a cliffhanger. I am intrigued by these questions. It just seems odd :blobfoxconfused:

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          @dynge @ray This piece is weird. It’s like the author did whole lot of digging based on the assumption that the organization is supposed to be all about making Firefox, turns up a whole bunch of things that don’t fit that assumption, concludes that it’s wrong, then criticizes and asks questions from the perspective that it’s right and something doesn’t add up…

          …but didn’t look around on Mozilla’s website?

          https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

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        @ray
        Thanks for sharing

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        The hero we need

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      • https://www.androidheadlines.com/2020/08/mozilla-firefox-google-search
      • https://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/technology/why-google-pays-10-billion-usd-to-its-competitor-mozilla.html

      Mozilla is, always was and will be mostly financed by Google.

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        Okay, Mozilla financially depends on Google. Yes, that’s pretty sad. But I think it’s too soon to quit on them. They’re trying to make privacy ecosystem and that might help them become independent.

        As for now, even though Mozilla is financed by Google, did the dependence really influenced Mozilla’s decisions?

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          @fit6529
          That is most likely something that won’t be made public but it definitely puts an ✳ on any decision they make.

          I will continue to use Firefox though. But today I learned :blobfoxhappy:
          @brombek

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        @brombek
        Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
        Interesting and a little depressing that companies may get so large that they support competitors just enough to avoid monopoly.

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