• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Also why if this goes through Mozilla and Firefox will both be killed instantly. They’re almost entirely funded by Google.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Mozilla could remain funded if they stopped doing things like paying the CEO seven million dollars per year while laying off employees. If Mozilla dies, it will 100% be because of corporate greed.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      Mozilla could probably survive with no additional funding, but they’d have to make some steep cuts. They have many millions in investments, enough to fund something like $20M indefinitely. That’s a lot lower than their current budget, but probably reasonable if they only needed to develop Firefox.

      If Google funding is pulled entirely, they’ll likely find a search deal (e.g. Bing, DDG, etc), but it’ll be a lot less in royalties. However, if you look at their financials, they’re already putting a lot of the Google money away into investments, so they can certainly survive some cuts, provided they can something in the ballpark of what Google was offering.