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I feel like I'm mis-understanding your argument. Are you saying that Mozilla can't do things that other groups are already successfully doing, because "The popular people make too much money" doing it, and "They are already getting that via the Mozilla Foundation"?

That doesn't make sense to me.

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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The point is that they are already doing what those orgs are doing. They are dealing with a userbase that doesn’t want to give them money by getting large amounts from special interest groups and corporations.

Which is why the Wikimedia (?) Foundation pushed REAL hard for AI until basically the entire editorbase told them to fuck off.

But hey? There is obviously infinite money so yeah, I am sure if Mozilla drops all those corporate interests and just switches to an optional patreon they would have even MORE money than they already do and would have no need to placate said special interests.

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- piefood@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The userbase does want to give them money though. I constantly hear people say that they want to donate to Firefox, but Mozilla doesn't let them do that.
  
  Also, I never said that Patreon would give them more money. It would be less money, but it would be more effective, as they could finally ditch the worthless exectutives that keep draining Mozilla's resources.
  
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  - NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    The userbase does want to give them money though
    
    Citation requested
    
    Good for the massive waves of people who want to give Mozilla money. They already can www.mozillafoundation.org/en/?form=donate-header
    
    It would be less money, but it would be more effective
    
    Oh yeah. I LOVE when my boss tells me that I am going to get paid less but I will be more effective because of it. Oh, wait, no I don’t.
    
    Honestly? it sounds like you don’t care about reality and just care about things being ideologically pure for you with the expectation that it will all work out. So… maybe try to educate yourself on any of all this before trying to have a discussion about it?
    
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    piefood@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Citation requested
    
    Do some searching here, on reddit, etc. You'll find it.
    
    Good for the massive waves of people who want to give Mozilla money. They already can https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/?form=donate-header
    
    That's not what I said. I said that they wanted to donate to Firefox, not Mozilla. I find it very telling that Mozilla doesn't let them do that, but insteads forces people to donate to the org, that overpays it's executives.
    
    Oh yeah. I LOVE when my boss tells me that I am going to get paid less but I will be more effective because of it. Oh, wait, no I don't.
    
    Who said that the people who are actually working on Firefox would get paid less? I certainly didn't. I clearly said that the useless executives would get paid less
    
    Honestly? it sounds like you don't care about reality and just care about things being ideologically pure for you with the expectation that it will all work out. So... maybe try to educate yourself on any of all this before trying to have a discussion about it?
    
    I have. But you clearly didn't read what I posted. If you aren't going to address the things that I wrote, why comment?
    
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