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Let me pay for Firefox

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803 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.275s | source
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lenkite ◴[13 Jul 25 10:07 UTC] No.44549029[source]▶
I would happily pay monthly for Firefox - but not to Mozilla Corporation. Will Pay to developers, development support and operations - not to pad the CEO salary.
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delusional ◴[13 Jul 25 10:35 UTC] No.44549205[source]▶
Yet we happily do that for everything else.

Either software developers have to figure out how to out compete the CEO ghouls (without becoming CEO ghouls themselves), or we just have to accept that the CEO ghouls will take their cut. There's no version of this where you can pay for a service, but also dictate how that money is spent.

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1. m-schuetz ◴[13 Jul 25 17:21 UTC] No.44551940[source]▶
I can't get around doing it for good products that are better than their competition. Firefox isnt that. I'd pay if it meant supporting enthusiastic engineers that try to make the best browser and strive to compete with Goliath. I'm not going to pay for the inflated sallary of the CEO of a product that is worse than the competition.