Lunduke

Excellent post about this: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo… Apparently the rewarding is opposite, to get Mozilla away from Firefox…

I read it on the same site, didn’t check the actual report to confirm: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5049241/linux-foundation-now-spends-on… Edit: checked it, figures are on page 158. they still spend 7,8 M$ on Linux kernel but it’s 2% of the total spend - to be fair a lot of the total is going to the community and related topics. Still a bit concerning. (I still think both the Linux Foundation and Mozilla are great organisations that should get more support to be clear)

I love and use Firefox every day also, and this is too true. Bryan Lunduke has a decent skim of some of Mozilla's finances which seems relevant enough to link here: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th… I wonder what we as a community can do to help preserve the independent browser and web. Mozilla does not seem at all focused to me on this goal. Theoretically it can be changed from the inside?

It's curious and pleasant to see some people taking a stance on this issue, by exploring other venues apart from YouTube. For example, Luke Smith hosts many of his videos over on Odysee nowadays: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@Luke:7 Also, Bryan Lunduke also moved over to Locals and has generally expressed that it's a more pleasant community: https://lunduke.locals.com/ Of course, i don't doubt that it's akin to financial suicide for anyone who relies on YouTube as their main source of income, but if nothing else, it's nice to see people standing up for their principles, instead of selling out and trying to build their platform on another site that can end their presence at will. I guess only time will show whether there ever will be any financially feasible alternatives to YouTube, though.

You can try it for yourself. Download SyncTerm and connect to House of Lunduke BBS. I mostly logged in to my local BBS to play door games like Legend of the Red Dragon and The Pit. 100% of the money I earned from my high school job went to paying the insane phone bill I'd rack up calling boards all over the country looking for files. The best was Rusty n Edie's BBS. https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm/ https://lunduke.locals.com/post/264191/the-house-of-lunduke-bbs-is-bac… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_n_Edie%27s_BBS

For me, I'm happily at paywalled https://lunduke.locals.com of https://lunduke.com . Paywall keeps trolls away. At HN/Reddit/Slashdot, there is flagging/downvoting etc, so it's hard to discuss something, like even asking about some normal technical question. It's possble to see something at HN new page, that will soon be flagged, disappear, downvoted etc. I would like to add comment to some flagged HN article, because for me it's important topic, but it's not possible because it's flagged.

This outlines 3 separate lawsuits against IBM over this: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6465642/3-anti-white-discrimination-la… Other companies I can think of are Google and Microsoft. Many huge open-source projects have openly promoted specific racial outcomes. I might dig up links later but if you actually care about this stuff, Lunduke is a great source of references. >Every single one of these policies that I've seen over the last 20 years, including my role as a hiring manager in my past career, were aimed at leveling the playing field and providing equal opportunities to people who aren't in the majority. That is how it's sold, but in practice it means you have to turn down perfectly good white people (especially white men) to get arbitrary demographic outcomes. If 13% of the population is black and almost none of them study engineering, you won't be able to get 13% representation without passing up on better white candidates. The same can be said about women and other minorities. Different demographics have different preferences and that is reflected in what they study and how hard they work at it. Yet we are supposed to think there is something nefarious if there is even a minor discrepancy in outcomes. Give me a break. This isn't the 1950s. Nobody would risk discriminating against a minority because it could cause a lawsuit. But discrimination against whites and men is not treated the same way, even when it can be proved…

Like I said I don't think she should have the job. But clarity is important and getting the facts right is important. (I also think the CEO comp is a bit of a sideshow, she was working for way below market before she got the increases, but of course, the right thing to do was not to give a non-performing CEO a raise, it was to fire her and hire someone who would perform and pay them market.) Mozilla's very clearly a case where politics won over engineering. This is true in a very literal and unambiguous way: Former CEO Brendan Eich, an engineer, was fired for his controversial political beliefs (he didn't like gay marriage). He was then replaced by a non-engineer: a lawyer who proceeded to funnel money away from engineering and toward left wing political groups. That's what a triumph of politics over engineering looks like. This is all documented in their public finances. Lunduke did a recent article on it: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th… (now watch the political activists come out of the woodwork because I've dared to invoke an "alt right" guy's name, and do their best to drown out the point about how Mozilla keeps cutting their engineering budget). Bottom line, politics won, engineering lost, Firefox is in freefall, and the fate of the open web is in jeopardy because of it. All I'm saying is let's be clear and specific about what went down here. The problem runs much deeper than Mitchell's pay.

My usual reminder that actually Mozilla has a lot of money (mostly from Google), and, for example, donates six figure numbers to random political organizations not related to browsers and internet (not EFF) Here is a breakdown, which was posted on HN few years ago – https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th…

They dont have to. They could be lean and focus on firefox only. Now they get 150m from google, spend just a part on firefox and rest on failures and hobby projects to get promoted. If they were focued on core business, 1) they would have a war chest 2) they could leave off donations https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th…

Every now and then we talk here about Mozilla needing more money to keep Firefox alive, meanwhile they spend money with other priorities in mind. This is an old article but has some good examples: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th…

The "controversy" is probably referring to this: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5823666/ladybird-web-browser-developer…

Source: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th… I know people here don’t like Bryan Lunduke, but besides the opinions added, this is factual, sourced reporting.

For concrete numbers (albeit circa 2022), this was previously posted on HN: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th… Tl;dr -- They do make more money than they spend on software development. They save a bunch of it and have a decently sized account (not near endowment levels though: they'd need to 3x+ it). They also spend a lot on other random shit, and compensate their executives well for how poorly they're doing.

Mozilla wastes way too much money: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th… This loss of funding will be good for them, they can focus on a browser instead of stupid things.

Let me get this straight, NOT A SINGLE DOLLAR of donations are used to fund development for Firefox!? How many are under the false impression of "helping Firefox" when in reality their donations are used to fund advocacy campaigns [0] and managerial bloat [1]? [0] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/help/#frequently-asked-questi… [1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th…

It's going towards a lot of controversial things unrelated to Firefox development or any open source software development by any reasonable standard. Here's one attempt at breaking down their finances: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th…

> donations amount to so little compared to its Google revenue “Interesting to note that the Mozilla CEO earned nearly as much ($5.6 M) as Mozilla received in donations ($7 M)” [1]. [1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th…

Bryan Lunduke has an article about this myth, actually! https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4037306/myth-windows-3-1-was-just-a-sh… It’s backed up by another Old New Thing article at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100517-00/?p=14013 The TL;DR is that Windows 3.1 effectively replaced DOS and acted as a hypervisor for it, while drivers could be written for Windows (and many were) or DOS (and presumably many more of those were actually distributed). The latter category was run in hypervised DOS and the results bridged to Windows callers. (Edited after submission for accuracy and to add the Old New Thing link.)

>Just download with browser, Option-Click the app and open, right? Not for much longer: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6304352/apple-removes-ability-to-run-u… I ran into the same error while trying to install QMK Toolbox the other day. Apple's control-freak policy over what you can and can't install is sickening.

i suppose if you think so lol... i have a link where they break it down into bitezied pieces for you if you want https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6174150/godot-responds-to-mass-banning…

That's not quite true though. Developers, contributors and financial supporters have been banned. "In a particularly peculiar move, a "Titanium Level" financial supporter of Godot was blocked during this mass banning campaign." https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6171454/godot-game-engine-enacts-mass-…

750 people is a total number. Number of people involved into developing Firefox is way less. $200 millions are the aggregated expenses of ALL software 'development' efforts of Mozilla Corporation like VPN, Relay, Pocket, mozilla.social, etc. And there are a lot of interesting expenses which are billed as development. According to Lunduke (1) who dived into the details a bit, there are many very questionnable expenses which are not related to Firefox development. So the questions is still very open, how much does Firefox development actually costs? Developing Thunderbird costed around $2 millions in 2021 (2). 1 - https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th… 2 - https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-…

Mozilla has a lot of money, almost none of which is spent on Firefox/Servo. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th…

A 5 minute overview, https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-nixos-conflict-in-under-5-mi… Another overview (easy to understand, but some non-central information is inaccurate), https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5819317/nixos-commits-a-purge-of-nazi-… Concrete events & evidences, https://github.com/nrdxp/rfc-evidence/blob/master/rfc_evidences_experi…

A sane company would then give the boot to their overpaid CEO and hire back talented developers. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo…

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-th… It's a little more nuanced than that.

The article: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5985667/python-bans-prominent-dev-for-…

Here’s one I found: <https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5823666/ladybird-web-browser-developer…