• Ale ở Đà Nẵng!@mstdn.io
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    4 days ago

    We don’t need to build Firefox though. Keeping up with the web standards and general maintenance does require a lot of work, but the base is there already.

    Also, with a $100k salary, $37.5M/yr is 375 developers. If we allow EU devs where 50k€ would be a reasonable salary, that’s 690 developers now.

    I understand there’s also admin work and a lot of marketing (which Firefox so desperately needs), and altogether it’s a stretch, but I believe that it is possible to pull it off.

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      Mozilla today also has that base, but it still has about 1000 employees IIRC. It also pays more than $100k, even for EU devs, and of course also has to pay taxes and what not on top of that. And don’t forget the infrastructure, for running builds, distributing the software, running Firefox Sync, etc., which does not come cheap.