[mardifoufs]

Does advocacy pay better?

[type0]

Mozilla management had friends that needed the money so they created those jobs, in my mind they should have donated it to EFF instead.

[Ferret7446]

Advocacy doesn't pay at all, it's a 100% money pit.

(You might wonder why they spent so much money on it. A lot of people wondered that, and apparently Mozilla itself has now wondered about it too.)

[mmooss]

They aren't a business trying to maximize profit. The idea of being a non-profit is to invest in things that are important but not profitable. Should all non-profits drop everything that's ... not profitable?

> A lot of people wondered that

It seems pretty obvious why they would do it, and it has been widely admired. I hadn't heard comments like yours until the pile-on in on this page.