MDN Plus

I don't feel anyone should need to personally "donate" to MDN or feel compelled to out of some sense of moral obligation; or any other reason for that matter. This isn't a donation per-say, but many on here seem to not care one iota about the features but still express a sentiment to want to "donate"..

The major players make nigh uncountable sums of money from "the web". The major browser vendors have pretty much delegated documenting how to develop against the browser platform to MDN. Microsoft explicitly I believe? This entire endeavor should be funded by corp contributions IMHO.

This massive effort to monetize MDN through the "little guy" seems super strange to me. How 'bout some blog posts about how you plan to get Apple, Microsoft, and Google to foot the entire bill for the operation?

> This entire endeavor should be funded by corp contributions IMHO.

Any entity will tailor the value it provides to the desires of its benefactors. So, if you would like MDN content focused on AMP, ads, and the metaverse, then this sounds like a good approach.

All of those companies want knowledgable developers as well as helping their own developers. They have enough incentive and self interest to fund MDN without having them focus on corp products.

> This massive effort to monetize MDN through the "little guy" seems super strange to me.

Always starts like that, but once they have enterprise subscriptions I can make a case for onboarding 100s of developers at a time.

Is there anything the internet believes people should pay for that Apple and Google shouldn't?

I think at this point people have balanced the entire global government budget + all consumer spending against a handful of tech company's balance sheets.

It's funny nobody does this against less visible but equally powerful companies. I don't hear anyone claiming Cargill should be funding open standards ag tech.

Literally populism.

> The major browser vendors have pretty much delegated documenting how to develop against the browser platform to MDN.

Are you sure about that? To use your example, Microsoft was one of the companies behind the launch of WebPlatform.org and the push to make it the vendor-neutral repository of documentation for Web browser tech. It eventually folded out of recognition that developer.mozilla.org was the de facto place for Web developers.*

Assertion: "When the WebPlatform.org effort folded, folks from Microsoft and elsewhere began redirecting their contributions to land on MDN."

How would you know if the previous statement were true or not? It's a collective work—formerly a wiki, and now managed through GitHub PRs.