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>Consider funding work to make Gecko better suited to embedding

Mozilla seems to choose what to do with donations though. I don't think there's any way to target funding for Gecko, Rust, etc.

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I think the suggestion being made here is that if somebody else did that work, they might be willing to merge it into their tree.

Has Mozilla showed any reason to bet on them in the last decade? It seems like leadership is happy to sink the company and take bonuses paid for by donations along the way.

I'd rather see a new player in the space. I have no confidence in Mozilla.

If a 501(c)(3) non-profit receives a donation for a specific project, by law they cannot direct the funds toward anything else unless the donor releases the funds for another purpose. This is more of a thing with large donations than, say, a recurring $10/month. If a small-dollar donor tried to restrict their funding, the non-profit would probably ignore the restriction because the donor has no leverage to find out if their instructions were followed.

If anyone with a ton of money wants to focus Mozilla specifically on Gecko, Rust, whatever, then that person can probably get them to do it.

This is the reason I stopped donating and stopped using Firefox. They won’t give up control and I don’t want a cent sent to anything but firefox/rust.

I think you would have to be funding a fork. I would point to LibreOffice and OpenOffice as an example.

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