“A republic, if you can keep it.”

  • drwankingstein
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    1 year ago

    Google pays mozilla iirc around 400m a year, loosing 85% of that yeah, that sucks, sure. but yeah, there is enough to sustain firefox and thunderbird and some other things. If not, something is dreadfully wrong.

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      1 year ago

      The numbers you have quoted so far don’t make a dent in the 400M though - we haven’t even reached 1% yet. How much do you think Mozilla is spending on Firefox? How much of that is “extra” per your back of the envelope math?

      • drwankingstein
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        1 year ago

        Appologies, I am not a tax auditor, I don’t have enough spare time to go comb through mozilla’s finances to list out every single expense mozilla has. If mozilla can’t make do on that funding, they maybe they deserve to shut it’s doors for good afterall.

        • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
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          1 year ago

          Sorry, you aren’t a tax auditor, but you are out here making claims. Try defending them?

          • drwankingstein
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            1 year ago

            I did. If you don’t agree fine, ok. Keep letting mozilla wasting everyones money creating a subpar browser.

            • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
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              1 year ago

              You are saying there is all of this wasted money, but as soon as you are asked for evidence, it is all “I’m not a tax auditor”. Defend your claims!

        • Vincent@feddit.nl
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          1 year ago

          I don’t think there’s anyone on planet earth who can build a browser at a budget of, say, 2 million USD annually. See also: Ladybird and Servo not being anywhere near ready.

          • drwankingstein
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            1 year ago

            good thing there would be a lot more then 2m usd left.

            Servo and Ladybird are progressing at an extremely rapid speed, using them as an example isn’t a good one IMO.

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              1 year ago

              Well, let me know when you’re using either for your regular browsing. If that’s in my lifetime, I’ll happily admit they were a bad example (and be a lot more comforted about the state of the web).

              • drwankingstein
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                1 year ago

                Servo recently had a blog update where they dropped some amazing news, gmail and google chat now works, so while it’s not what you were wanting, it is some good news :D

              • drwankingstein
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                1 year ago

                ofc they are, I already explained my reasoning for my comments.