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Then please be constructive and explain Mozilla how else they'll get their 300 millions operating budget each year


> Then please be constructive and explain Mozilla how else they'll get their 300 millions operating budget each year

They should probably start with dropping their yak shaving shenanigans (Rust, Persona et. al.), nice toys as their are.


> They should probably start with dropping their yak shaving shenanigans (Rust, Persona et. al.), nice toys as their are.

So, you are saying that Mozilla should stop having long-focus technical efforts to develop technologies to support the future of the open web, and leave long-focus technical development to the commercial browser vendors? Seems to me that might help the balance sheet in the short-term, at the expense of Mozilla permanently -- and quite likely distantly -- trailing the commercial vendors as the latters' long-focus efforts come to fruition and Mozilla is forced to play catch-up, but Mozilla lacks such innovation of their own.


Uhhh higher more developers to get features out?

I thought that was the whole point of making the organization in the first place.


Well, they are getting features out. They need to pass some tests, but the amount of features that are made on a daily level is quite large:

This features added aggregated on a weekly level http://firefoxnightly.tumblr.com/




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