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Tell Mozilla: It’s time to ditch Google in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

We don’t need to build Firefox though. Keeping up with the web standards and general maintenance does require a lot of work, but the base is there already.

Also, with a $100k salary, $37.5M/yr is 375 developers. If we allow EU devs where 50k€ would be a reasonable salary, that’s 690 developers now.

I understand there’s also admin work and a lot of marketing (which Firefox so desperately needs), and altogether it’s a stretch, but I believe that it is possible to pull it off.

Tell Mozilla: It’s time to ditch Google in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

What’s weird to me is that Mozilla Foundation can probably sustain Firefox development from it’s investment income alone (e.g. $37.5M in 2023): https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:501c3/_2023/_990/_Mozilla/Foundation/-/_Full/Filing/-/_Nonprofit/Explorer/-/_ProPublica.pdf