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Mozilla is a for-profit not-for-profit. And that’s all you need to know to explain everything that doesn’t seem to make sense about the chasm between what they say and what they do.

@aral
Can you explain what you mean by a for-profit not-for-profit? Those seem like mutually exclusive attributes.

@JamesDBartlett3 Yes, they are.

Mozilla is a not-for-profit that owns a for-profit that pays its CEO millions. Oh, and they also exist because Google pays them half a billion dollars every year.

Have you donated yet?

@aral
I'm a little confused about how a not-for-profit can be allowed to have a for-profit subsidiary. Seems completely out-of-line with the entire purpose of not-for-profit organizations.
No, I never donate to anything I haven't thoroughly investigated first, and I haven't looked into Mozilla lately, though it sounds like I would probably not like what I found if I did.

Aral Balkan

@JamesDBartlett3 Yeah, it shouldn’t be allowed. But, hey, capitalism is a real gas.