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Sometimes you make decisions based on principle and future risk. Brave Software is a for-profit company that funded its start through Peter Thiel.

Even if fine in the present, you cannot guarantee me the future of a Thiel-funded, VC-owned firm.

Mozilla, in comparison, is a mature, non-profit with substantial goodwill and operational transparency.

Everything past these details are just noise.

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Mozilla has also a for-profit corporation.

No, Mozilla is a non-profit -- you may just misunderstand charitable structure optimization. It has a for-profit public-benefit subsidiary called Mozilla Corporation (Firefox).

This is common in non-profits for a number of reasons: protects the foundations assets, allows for engaging in commercial operations (Mozilla VPN, Anonym), greater flexibility, etc.

It is not a true for-profit company. All "profit" flows up to the non-profit and the non-profit parent retains complete, absolute control while being tied to the Mozilla mission.

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