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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Kinda love it how Mozilla went from being about a good browser to a corporate sponge for Google money. Truly enshittified.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I'm pretty sure they are not making much in the way of money. That's part of the problem.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They make lots of money, Mozilla publishes their tax returns. Between mozilla nonprofit and mozilla corp they are very healthy in funds. In 2021 mozilla foundation, and the corporates it owns, had 1.1 billion USD in assets

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

I looked at this at first and thought "What? 1.3 million? That's crazy low what the heck" then I saw "in thousands" and I can't help but agree.

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