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630 points sendilkumarn | 1 comments | 24 Mar 22 16:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | 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. cxr ◴[25 Mar 22 13:03 UTC] No.30801633[source]▶
> 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.