As a bit of an aside, I learned recently why Mozilla has the weird Corporate/Foundation structure that it does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701441
Basically the IRS is highly skeptical of the idea that free software development fits the legal definition of a 501©(3), and tends to reject such applications [1][2]. That is why Mozilla Foundation cannot use donations for Firefox development, and instead uses them for activism.
Someone claiming to be the CEO of one of these foundations appears to confirm it. Just thought people might be interested to know since this comes up in pretty much every thread about Mozilla.
If that’s the case, isn’t it strange Mozilla is shuffling their funds to a different for-profit subsidiary to build a different product?
Fuck mozilla and fuck AI
I get why people dislike AI being shoved down their throats but optional self-hostable open source AI is really good no
Mozilla is burning donation money on this entry into an already full market, it hooks into cloud models, and at best (if you download one instead) you’ll be left with a wrapper around a closed-source binary made by a Big Tech corporation.
Don’t donate to Mozilla, because this is where Mozilla donations go. Google funds Firefox, donations (to MZLA) fund Thunderbird. Mozilla Foundation funds get sunk into this.
Why are you on such a hate spree against Mozilla? I can understand reasons for not liking Mozilla or not donating but you’re going around even on unrelated comments telling people not to donate. I donated to thunderbird before but not Mozilla directly and I will keep doing that from time to time as I like thunderbird