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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: 0.289s | 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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1. atombender ◴[12 Mar 25 23:38 UTC] No.43348868[source]▶
It's the opposite. It's the Mozillq Corporation that develops the browser. The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which owns the corp, does not. You can donate to the nonprofit, but you can't donate to the corporation. Furthermore, what a lot of people dislike is that the foundation's money doesn't go towards Firefox development. Instead, Firefox revenue (almost entirely royalties from Google) are passed by the corp to the foundation.