Comment on Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks agomozilla takes donations, but they don’t fund Firefox development with that money. that’s usually what you’re home against it.
master5o1@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
The way you word it suggests that donations to Mozilla are expressly forbidden from being spent on Firefox. Which I doubt is true.
But yes, many would prefer to donate specifically for Firefox development than into a general pool for Mozilla to allocate as they choose.
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Mozilla is set up as a non-profit with a for profit company as a subsidiary. The corporate Mozilla handles working on Firefox, mostly using money from Google for setting it as the default search engine. Because of that separation I don’t think they can easily mix those two piles of money together.
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
IIRC they recently lost that google money in august since they were found guilty of monopolistic practices. that is why they’ve been reducing budget everywhere (except AI….)
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Google is still appealing it, so at best that will happen next year. But yeah, they’re probably adjusting their budget in anticipation.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
as i understand it, the money goes to the foundation, and it’s the corporation that develops the browser. so it’s probably not strictly forbidden, but it does imply that the money is not for browser development.