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The big question is why anything there has to be an income stream.

If there are users, and there is a need, we should directly furnish the project with a bunch of hired employees rather than indirectly pay some manager, rely on charity or ads.

Yes, I know, how unamerican of me. ;)




> we should directly furnish the project with a bunch of hired employees

Who is “we”?


We should be able to directly donate to fund the salary of full-time engineers working on Firefox and only Firefox, completely circumventing the PMC.

It might also be possible to fork and spin off Firefox into a new non-profit, circumventing Mozilla if some of the devs organize it.


> We should be able to directly donate to fund the salary of full-time engineers working on Firefox and only Firefox

Money is fungible. If you want to do this, frankly, donate to LibreWolf.




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