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by vdaniuk 4043 days ago
An organization being for-profit or non-profit is not particularly important distinction? Elaborate please.
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It's literally just a tax status.

Part of that is that no one owns the Mozilla Foundation, but, for example, the people controlling it can still extract money by paying themselves salary. This is how family foundations can be a tax dodge, the huge legacy is dumped into a non profit and grows without incurring much taxes, meanwhile the family has some meetings and draws comfortable salaries for it.