Comment by bobbob27

There's people in the FOSS realm running VERY competent operations for simple living wage, or less.

Take KDE for example. It's easy to argue they've accomplished MORE than Mozilla has in the last decade.

Their desktop ships with every Steam Deck (along with some niche laptop manufacturers) and they have a vast ecosystem of applications. Albeit some more rapidly developed than others.

Their structure is entirely different than Mozilla so it's hardly a direct comparison. But the main point is that Mozilla's traditional corporate structure seems to be a millstone.

They could have stashed most of their Google funding and kept a solid team of passionate maintainers paid in perpetuity. Goodwill could have volunteers contributing directly to Firefox, instead of forking it.