• underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Mozilla is set up as a non-profit with a for profit company as a subsidiary. The corporate Mozilla handles working on Firefox, mostly using money from Google for setting it as the default search engine. Because of that separation I don’t think they can easily mix those two piles of money together.

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      6 days ago

      IIRC they recently lost that google money in august since Google was found guilty of monopolistic practices. that is why they’ve been reducing budget everywhere (except AI….)

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        6 days ago

        Google is still appealing it, so at best that will happen next year. But yeah, they’re probably adjusting their budget in anticipation.