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by CorpusCalcium 2937 days ago
>Disclaimer: I donate to Firefox.

No, you really don't. You donate to the Mozilla Foundation, who are the non-profit parent company who do these kinds of things, not build Firefox. Firefox is made by their subsidiary Corporation, who cannot accept your donations.

The Corporation doesn't even need your donations anyway; they make a lot more revenue than the donations Mozilla receives.

However, the more you donate, the larger the whole company is allowed to grow while legally being a non-profit. Also, the more is donated, the more they are allowed to transfer between the Foundation and the Corporation.

But you are still not ultimately donating to Firefox. You are donating to the Foundation, who need the money more in the first place so that the whole can legally remain a non-profit, even if they earn more revenue.

Whether or not you feel they should have more money to work with is up to you, but I note that quite a few people seem to wish that Mozilla could do pie-in-the-sky stuff like manage their own user clouds and VPNs and search engines while not remaining motivated by shareholder profits.

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Well, the email that asked me to donate very much implied that I should donate to keep Firefox going and fight the good fight. I might have misunderstood it and since my money is not needed, I should consider donating to something else in the future.
Feel free, but I don't see why you would draw the conclusion that your money is not needed from what I said (even if Firefox has enough revenue to work with for now, your donations keep the whole organization viable as-is; you're just not directly donating to Firefox).