But even if they did, they’d have to hire the management and such of Mozilla, too. It would be Mozilla in a trenchcoat immediately.
Hiring them wouldn’t be mandatory. Look at Godot. They figured their shit out right quick after whatever it was that the other game engine pulled. LibreWolf will have the time to prepare for this. Courts move slowly.
Thunderbird got millions in donations and are free of Mozilla. When you donate to Thunderbird, guess where that money goes. That’s right, Thunderbird. Not some CEO who takes 6M in bonuses. Librewolf can provide a harbor for firefox devs if they decide to get their shit together when clouds start forming.
Of course it’s possible that another org will swoop in.
Donations to Mozilla do not go to the CEO. You donate to the Mozilla Foundation, whereas the CEO that we’re talking about is heading the Mozilla Corporation.
The latter is a subsidiary of the Foundation, so if the situation should get really dire, then the Foundation could hand them some money, but since the Foundation is legally a non-profit, it doesn’t have much more than pocket change.
Incidentally, yes, donations to Mozilla generally do not go towards Firefox development. The Foundation rather works on lobbying governments, as well as community work (which may help win some open-source contributors for Firefox), but they often also just award donation money to less publicly known open-source projects.
Hiring them wouldn’t be mandatory. Look at Godot. They figured their shit out right quick after whatever it was that the other game engine pulled. LibreWolf will have the time to prepare for this. Courts move slowly.
Thunderbird got millions in donations and are free of Mozilla. When you donate to Thunderbird, guess where that money goes. That’s right, Thunderbird. Not some CEO who takes 6M in bonuses. Librewolf can provide a harbor for firefox devs if they decide to get their shit together when clouds start forming.
Of course it’s possible that another org will swoop in.
Donations to Mozilla do not go to the CEO. You donate to the Mozilla Foundation, whereas the CEO that we’re talking about is heading the Mozilla Corporation.
The latter is a subsidiary of the Foundation, so if the situation should get really dire, then the Foundation could hand them some money, but since the Foundation is legally a non-profit, it doesn’t have much more than pocket change.
Incidentally, yes, donations to Mozilla generally do not go towards Firefox development. The Foundation rather works on lobbying governments, as well as community work (which may help win some open-source contributors for Firefox), but they often also just award donation money to less publicly known open-source projects.