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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social if Mozilla can't afford to keep developing/maintaining firefox without resorting to the sad path, then the question that needs to be asked is how any other organization can?The answer is very easy. The Mozilla Corporation is a commercial organization seeking profit by doing a lot of things that have absolutely nothing to do with improving the browser.

In the early 00s Mozilla used to invest almost all of the money that it made into software development.

If you look at recent financial reports the amount of money it puts into software development is only about 50% of their total expenses.

Like at the moment they are wasting money on like 12 different AI and web3 meme projects that nobody cares about.

Also as the icing on the cake they give absolutely insane multi-million dollar bonuses to their top executives.

It should not be very hard to turn Mozilla into a sustainable organization focused primarily on browser development. They definitely have enough means to do but the way they are currently using their capital is absolutely misguided.