What a shitty headline. That’s the entirely wrong question to be asking and the real question is at the bottom of the article “Do you truly believe the web would be better off in a world where Mozilla no longer exists?”. My answer is a full-throated “YES!!!”. Fuck Mozilla.
You don’t need 500 million dollars a year to develop browser. Seriously, what the fuck are you doing with all that money? Ukraine is building thousands of drones with that money, maybe even spinning up a new nuclear program. You mean to tell me that developing a browser costs more than the nuclear program of one of the biggest arms producers in the world? You have got to be shitting me.
Firefox not being able to compete with that amount of money for a decade or more is just proof of gross incompetence on the part of Mozilla’s leadership. It’s not 500 million dollars as a one time donation, it’s 500 million dollars every single year for what, 10 years? Let’s say they started at 200 and only recently got to 500 million. That’s maybe 300 million per year for 10 years, making it 3 cool billion dollars. How many developers does that pay? Even if every single employee cost 1 million, that would be 200 and now 500 employees.
The more you break it down, the worse it looks for Mozilla. They are disorganised, have too many goals, make phenomenal waste of resources, and are doing the least amount possible to keep getting Google’s money. It’s made them languid and dependent. They should stop hogging the spotlight and let a better, more driven, less money-hungry suitor take their place.
I would like to set the question in a slight but impactful way:
“Do you truly believe the web would be better off in a world where Firefox no longer exists?”.
I would say no, that would be a damn shame. I will grant you, though, that Mozilla has lost its way and is no longer the respected steward of a fine browser that it used to be.
What a shitty headline. That’s the entirely wrong question to be asking and the real question is at the bottom of the article “Do you truly believe the web would be better off in a world where Mozilla no longer exists?”. My answer is a full-throated “YES!!!”. Fuck Mozilla.
You don’t need 500 million dollars a year to develop browser. Seriously, what the fuck are you doing with all that money? Ukraine is building thousands of drones with that money, maybe even spinning up a new nuclear program. You mean to tell me that developing a browser costs more than the nuclear program of one of the biggest arms producers in the world? You have got to be shitting me.
Firefox not being able to compete with that amount of money for a decade or more is just proof of gross incompetence on the part of Mozilla’s leadership. It’s not 500 million dollars as a one time donation, it’s 500 million dollars every single year for what, 10 years? Let’s say they started at 200 and only recently got to 500 million. That’s maybe 300 million per year for 10 years, making it 3 cool billion dollars. How many developers does that pay? Even if every single employee cost 1 million, that would be 200 and now 500 employees.
The more you break it down, the worse it looks for Mozilla. They are disorganised, have too many goals, make phenomenal waste of resources, and are doing the least amount possible to keep getting Google’s money. It’s made them languid and dependent. They should stop hogging the spotlight and let a better, more driven, less money-hungry suitor take their place.
I would like to set the question in a slight but impactful way:
I would say no, that would be a damn shame. I will grant you, though, that Mozilla has lost its way and is no longer the respected steward of a fine browser that it used to be.
They and their products are as independent as a domesticated dog is. That’s what happens when you accept the money.