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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 is true. Execs at the non-profit foundation have been pocketing millions of dollars. And I cannot really point out what they do. I guess this is common in many non-profits, where people donate, and people at the top siphon it off. There's some corruption at play at the top.

>>freshs+Fm
Mozilla makes 500million, the CEO takes 2.5million, not saying that isn't too much, but given it leaves 497.5 million left, I doubt you can blame that for the failings of FireFox.

>>didibu+Mi1
Some of the most important Rust contributors get cut, like Alex Crichton

CEO doesn't want to take even a small pay cut