• beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
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    2 days ago

    comments claiming mozilla doesn’t need the money make me feel i’m crazy. you actually think making a modern web engine that competes with chrome in terms of performance and compatibility is easy? that relying solely on donations from individuals and voluntary work are gonna cut it? if it was that easy, we’d have more than just gecko, webkit and webkit fork – but we don’t.

    it also truly drives me insane when people bring up the forks, as if they’re anything more than re-skins.

    without financial backing, mozilla is dead, firefox is dead, and the web will be 100% google’s. no project as large and complex as firefox stays afloat without corporate-level money.

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      No but maybe the C-level guys don’t need multiple millions while the actual developers don’t hardly get paid in comparison.

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        i might be mistaken, but mozilla’s executives get paid about 15% of the total revenue. it’s a lot, but it’s not the problem here

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          15% of their revenue just for the fucking CEO (a string of really bad ones at that) is a huge fucking problem.