Lemmy.eus
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
ray@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla

lunduke.substack.com

external-link
message-square
19
fedilink
0
external-link

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla

lunduke.substack.com

ray@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
message-square
19
fedilink
Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that's just for starters.
  • brombek@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 years ago
    • 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.

    • fit6529@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 years ago

      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?

      • Michael Damsbo Lyngs@fosstodon.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 years ago

        @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

        • KelsonV@wandering.shop
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          deleted by creator

    • Michael Damsbo Lyngs@fosstodon.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 years ago

      @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.

      • jonuno@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        Adobe leaves the chat

Open Source@lemmy.ml

opensource@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !opensource@lemmy.ml

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

  • Open Source Initiative
  • Free Software Foundation
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Software Freedom Conservancy
  • It’s FOSS
  • Android FOSS Apps Megathread

Rules

  • Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
  • No NSFW content
  • No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

  • !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_software@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
  • !linux@lemmy.ml
  • !technology@lemmy.ml

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 300 users / day
  • 1.28K users / week
  • 3.22K users / month
  • 9.88K users / 6 months
  • 20 local subscribers
  • 36.7K subscribers
  • 2.88K Posts
  • 22.3K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Evan@lemmy.ml
  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org