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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
This topic keeps coming up. Mozilla is viewed as a bloated entity whose only legitimate activity is maintaining Firefox. No-one cares about the other initiatives they spend money and resources on, and they especially don't want their donations going toward Mozilla's overpaid leadership.

People would like to donate directly to Firefox, but as things stand, this isn't an option. This isn't because Firefox falls under the Mozilla brand, it's because Mozilla choose not to accept Firefox-specific donations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129794

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129926

>>MaxBar+L6
Mozilla Foundation can't accept Firefox specific donations because the Mozilla Foundation does not develop Firefox. The Mozilla Corporation does and the foundation cannot give money to the corporation (only the other way around). So you'd need to redo a whole lot of things for this to be possible.

>>marcin+Ff
> Mozilla Foundation can't accept Firefox specific donations because the Mozilla Foundation does not develop Firefox. The Mozilla Corporation does and the foundation cannot give money to the corporation (only the other way around).

Does that mean that not only it is impossible to make Firefox specific donations but also that it is guaranteed that none of the money donated to Mozilla can ever end up being used for Firefox development?