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What exactly is Mozilla even competing for? Popularity?

Mozilla's revenue is proportional to usage so they need enough users to cover their development costs.

>>wmf+(OP)
If only the wikimedia foundation would fork firefox, then the open web might have a chance.

Wikimedia is honestly the only organization with the right ideology, the right business model, and enough money to do something like this sustainably.

>>20afte+Ye
I thought Wikimedia was quite shady itself when it comes to funding and money management?

>>epolan+2o
Mozilla and Wikimedia both have a reputation for wasting money by trying to branch out beyond their main product. Wikimedia is totally overfunded so wasting money doesn't threaten their survival but they've also been criticized for begging for donations that they don't need. Personally I don't see a reason to combine them.

>>epolan+2o
Wikimedia is much much less shady than Mozilla in a bunch of ways. Some people might take issue with the way they spend their money, or the tactics they use to raise money, but I don't think I would consider them shady.

Full disclosure: I was employed as a software release engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation from 2015 through 2022.

>>wmf+Uq
Coincidental observation:

Your username is the same as the initialism used internally to refer to the Wikimedia Foundation.. The WikiMediaFoundation: WMF