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630 points sendilkumarn | 2 comments | 24 Mar 22 16:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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Rapzid ◴[24 Mar 22 23:43 UTC] No.30796973[source]▶
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?

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1. ochoseis ◴[24 Mar 22 23:57 UTC] No.30797100[source]▶
> 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.

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2. gfxgirl ◴[25 Mar 22 00:11 UTC] No.30797222[source]▶
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.