Yeah you’re correct the payments were stopped late last year but was on the radar for a couple years. It’s why the sudden sketchy rush for other sources of income so they can keep going as normal.

It’s been set up to fail. That income is the only thing that justified such an insane pay package for their c-suite in the first place, the current form of Mozilla is a direct result of all that cash. It’s supposed to be a nonprofit and now they’re basically in withdrawal because they cannot afford their insane"normal tech company leadership" salaries.

Idk how Mozilla survives this tbh, the leadership pay the biggest liability killing the company and they have to willingly give it up before the company goes bankrupt or becomes another ad machine.

I would really love for them to drop pocket and all their other stupid shit and just make a browser like they used to. Even just that is a huge undertaking these days though, and that is because of Google’s ability to basically dictate web standards. They strung Mozilla along as a pet “look we’re not a monopoly” competitor while continuously raising the bar to entry for any competition. I think the antitrust case should have gone after web standards to allow for competition rather than basically killing off the only real competitor, but that would have been harder to do I guess.