Well I for one hope they figure out an alternative income, like a premium subscription? Or perhaps look to get acquired by proton and get some integration going with those services? I'm no expert here, I just think that they have a lot of happy users, and there must be some way to figure this out financially.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They need to reform as a non-profit with user membership, an elected board, and fundraising like Wikipedia.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

I'm not aware of any non-profit with staffing the size of Mozilla. The problem is that you need to be able to make money and to set it aside for bad times, so you don't have to fire employees the moment the donations falter.

The 501(c)(3) non-profit form of tax-exempt non-profit, which is what the Mozilla Foundation continues to be, is not allowed to do so. That's why they opened up the for-profit Mozilla Corporation subsidiary that does most of the Firefox development.

On the plus side, the only shareholder of the Mozilla Corporation is the Mozilla Foundation, which therefore essentially cannot accept any of the profit the MoCo might make.

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 1 points 3 months ago

This is the real answer