So, a lot of people in this thread are saying that Mozilla is a non-profit. There are in fact two Mozillas. One is the Mozilla Foundation, which is the non-profit. They are not involved with Firefox development, as I understand it. The Mozilla Corporation, which I think is owned by the non-profit, does the development. I think the foundation just does cute videos and outreach and other things not directly related to writing software. I also understand that if you donate money to the Mozilla foundation, the money would not make it to Mozilla corp and thus would not pay for the salary of any Firefox hacker.
I've never quite understood how exactly does this financial arrangement work and I would be grateful to anyone who could explain this to me.
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