• verdigris@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Where are these grants coming from? They already take in donations and it’s not nearly enough to pay the engineers. Sure I’d love it if the c-suite took a pay cut but the truth is that a modern web browser is a big enough project that it basically requires an enterprise-size team dedicated to its maintenance.

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      1 day ago

      “They already take in donations…”

      Where can I dontate to Firefox? Not Mozilla, and not a fund that goes to CEO-pay or other expences, but straight to Firefox

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          1 day ago

          But that’s not donating to Firefox, that’s donating to Mozilla, which I don’t want to do, because they seem to be wasting their money.

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            1 day ago

            If your concern is that the money goes to efforts for an open internet, and not too enriching any executives, then you want to donate to the non-profit, not the corporation.

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              24 hours ago

              But I don’t want to donate to the “open internet” or the non-profit, I want to donate directly to Firefox. How can I ensure that the money I spend gets spent on that and only that?

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                21 hours ago

                Donate to the corporation. They’re the people who work on the product.

                What point do you think you’re making here?

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                  13 hours ago

                  I feel like my point was pretty clear, but to spell it out: Mozilla is mis-managing their resources. I want to make sure the resources that I give to them only go towards what I consider to be worthwhile projects.

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                    12 hours ago

                    Right which is why I told you about the non-profit which is the organization that’s dedicated to the open web. I feel like that’s pretty clear.