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630 points sendilkumarn | 1 comments | 24 Mar 22 16:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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jefftk ◴[24 Mar 22 17:12 UTC] No.30792694[source]▶
Everyone who's been saying "I wish they would just charge money for this", here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is!
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reitanqild ◴[24 Mar 22 17:48 UTC] No.30793192[source]▶
I didn't say that I think but I am tempted to pay anyway.

The big question is:

Does the money go to Firefox or to funny projects and (what I consider) insane exec salaries?

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ygjb ◴[24 Mar 22 19:53 UTC] No.30794592[source]▶
I always wonder at the thought process behind these questions.

Yes, Mozilla (.org) is a non-profit, and Mozilla (.com) is a regular corporation. Yes, Mozilla has commitments about transparency. Yes, exec salaries are insane.

Do folks who ask this question scrutinize every purchase or business they make to this degree? In the laundry list of entertainment, learning, and professional subscriptions, what portion of spotify, github, or other popular subs end up contributing to just the feature or service you like as opposed to the entire organization and other initiatives that the organization supports?

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dsr_ ◴[24 Mar 22 20:00 UTC] No.30794662[source]▶
It's idealism. We still hope, despite the evidence, that Mozilla can be unadulteratedly good, as long as we only look at the open source side of it.

We already know that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Oracle are evil.

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Vinnl ◴[24 Mar 22 20:08 UTC] No.30794741[source]▶
It's not just the classic "evil" companies though. When you buy a jar of peanut butter, do you demand every cent to be going to production of the jar without overhead? Do you check the peanut butter company's CEO's salary to ensure it's not too high? I sure don't.
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1. jodrellblank ◴[24 Mar 22 22:35 UTC] No.30796268[source]▶
If they said you could donate on top of the jar price to help the poor third world peanut farmers, and you did so, and then found that money went to the CEO's salary and a rebranded PeanutVPN product, and then the Peanut Butter CEO justified it by saing that Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella get paid a lot so it's not fair if they don't, would none of that that annoy you?