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Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?

63 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 12 Mar 25 09:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

How much would you and or your company be willing to fund Mozilla should it need to become independent of Google?
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DiabloD3 ◴[12 Mar 25 11:34 UTC] No.43342134[source]▶
The only way I would donate to Mozilla is if the corporation is shuttered and the non-profit is disentangled from it.

Any donations you send to Mozilla today go to the corporation and are not spent on the browser. They are spent on things that have nothing to do with the core mission of the maintaining the browser.

Nobody is allowed to fund Mozilla to maintain the browser, which is the actual question you're asking.

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nailer ◴[12 Mar 25 11:57 UTC] No.43342278[source]▶
This and I would pay between 10 and 20 USD a year for it.

Much like Wikipedia, my donations depend on being able to donate to the actual engineers, and not to unrelated political advocacy.

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s_dev ◴[12 Mar 25 12:14 UTC] No.43342409[source]▶
Jimmy Wales should really push for a Wikipedia fork of Firefox. People trust Wikimedia Foundation and the entire thing is in line with the goals of Wikimedia who also 'get' web development.
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1. Yoric ◴[12 Mar 25 14:13 UTC] No.43343460[source]▶
A fork? Getting any momentum behind this might be really hard.