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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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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. drstewart ◴[25 Mar 22 07:23 UTC] No.30799489[source]▶
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.