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0 pointsmardifoufs1y ago0 comments

Does advocacy pay better?

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Mozilla management had friends that needed the money so they created those jobs, in my mind they should have donated it to EFF instead.

Ferret74461y ago

Advocacy doesn't pay at all, it's a 100% money pit.

(You might wonder why they spent so much money on it. A lot of people wondered that, and apparently Mozilla itself has now wondered about it too.)

mmooss1y ago

They aren't a business trying to maximize profit. The idea of being a non-profit is to invest in things that are important but not profitable. Should all non-profits drop everything that's ... not profitable?

> A lot of people wondered that

It seems pretty obvious why they would do it, and it has been widely admired. I hadn't heard comments like yours until the pile-on in on this page.

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