Comment by aucisson_masque
1 year ago
however are the cost of developing a web browser and hosting an internet encyclopedia ran by volunteer comparable ?
mozilla use paid labor, engineer who are very expensive. wikipedia it's mostly hosting a html page and a few media.
Yet wikipedia has much more user to whom it can show the donation nag when mozilla has a much more limited userbase.
i think that mozilla taking google money to put them as default search engine is fine, people who care about privacy are allowed to change it whenever they want.
In 2023 the Wikimedia Foundation had 700 paid employees/contractors working for them.
At the end of 2023 Mozilla Corporation had 964 employees and Mozilla Foundation had 118.
So the difference isn’t that large…
Google - mozilla contract alone gives mozilla 500 000 000$.
Wikimedia budget is 170 000 000$.
I'm sure that developing a browser is more expensive, would mozilla be able to make it work with at best a third of the budget ? I don't think so..