… I mean, WTF. Mozilla, you had one job …

  • wolf@lemmy.zipOP
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    2 months ago

    In general I agree: Open source projects are super hard to monetize and too much work does not get donations, flowers or even thanks.

    For Firefox specifically I am not so sure, especially when Thunderbird seems to be doing good with their donation based model.

    As long as Firefox is run by Mozilla throwing millions at their incompetent leadership, I will not donate a cent to Firefox.

    If Firefox would get forked by some developers I’ll happily donate money to them and given Firefox high visibility/importance, this might work out, like Thunderbird did.

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      2 months ago

      You can’t donate a cent to Firefox anyway, the Mozilla Corporation does not accept donations. Thunderbird is also developed by a for profit company under the Foundation, but does accept non-tax-deductible donations.

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      2 months ago

      There are some Firefox forks, but they tend to get outdated… / have slow update cycles