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>>stevek+(OP)
It is good news that rust is settling up a independent foundation.

If other shelved or high risk Mozilla projects such as MDN , servo , thunderbird setup similarly it would enable us to directly contribute to the projects instead of the foundation or not at all.

The only project the corporation would never let go is Firefox as it their revenue source , however other projects could perhaps be salvaged

>>manque+y3
I agree it would be best if FF was it's own foundation. I would like to hear some arguments from Mozilla about this. It seems an idea that only has upsides to me. I get the feeling Mozilla is kind-of hijacking the donations people think are going towards Firefox.

>>0xcoff+s4
Some folks believe very strongly in the advocacy that Mozilla undertakes, and believe that separating the software efforts from the advocacy would diminish the funding for advocacy.

Which is probably true; Google is unlikely to spend half a billion a year on Mozilla's advocacy efforts.

>>dlesli+u5
> Google is unlikely to spend half a billion a year on Mozilla's advocacy efforts.

AFAIK, Google's money goes to the Mozilla Corporation, while the donations go to the Mozilla Foundation. So the advocacy is already separated, isn't it?

>>whyeve+P6
2% of annual net-revenues from MozCorp go to the Foundation; and Google's deal is with the Foundation, but I'm iffy on how much makes it straight into MozCorp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing

>>dlesli+X8
I'm pretty sure MoCo owns the Google deal. From that same Wikipedia article in the section about MoCo:

> It also handles relationships with businesses, many of which generate income. Unlike the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is a tax-paying entity, which gives it much greater freedom in the revenue and business activities it can pursue. From 2004 to 2014, the majority of revenue came from a deal with Google, which was the default search engine in the Firefox web browser.