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Let me pay for Firefox

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802 points csmantle | 2 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.866s | source
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lvl155 ◴[13 Jul 25 10:25 UTC] No.44549148[source]▶
I am always surprised Rust came out of that org.
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rwmj ◴[13 Jul 25 10:44 UTC] No.44549271[source]▶
But not surprised that they canned the team & cancelled the project. It thrived outside Mozilla.
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1. bn-l ◴[13 Jul 25 11:09 UTC] No.44549419[source]▶
How? How does one corp mess things up this bad?
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2. rwmj ◴[13 Jul 25 11:44 UTC] No.44549595[source]▶
They're not a real corporation in the "making profit by shipping widgets" sense. They've been funded by a huge annual grant from Google. So none of the management understands in their bones how money is made or how money is necessary for a company to survive. They have never built a successful, profitable product.

Instead of play-acting as a corporation, they might have decided to become a non-profit software foundation, which would have been a very honourable thing to do. But they have not, for example, built up a huge war-chest in case the Google spigot ever stops. Instead senior management has frittered the money away on their own salaries and absurd money-losing projects and acquisitions.