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by prepend
2313 days ago
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I am a big proponent for non-profit but I think they can be risky if they are dependent on donors, especially a few donors. Mozilla Foundation has google as it’s biggest revenue source [0], so if Google ever decides to change this it will cripple the org. I think this would be different if revenue came from many donors so this risk would be lower. I use FireFox and support Mozilla, but it’s challenging to donate to FireFox as Mozilla runs quite a few projects. Nobody is perfect, but non-profits have risks like any organization. [0] was yahoo for a while, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation |
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Not really. They do have a rainy-day fund, and they have experimented with partnering with other search providers in the past (such as Microsoft, or country-local search engines like Yandex). The main reason they still use Google is that the users prefer it. But if Google decides not to pay anymore, Mozilla will survive.