• madjo@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    They’re looking for a sustainable revenue stream because the Google subsidy is bound to dry up.

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      2 days ago

      if they manage to make it an actual good product and also not host it in the US, they might even be able to pull it off

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        18 hours ago

        They are thinking of having the user choose the juridiction. So far their testing is hosted in the EU apparently.

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          Until the lawsuit between Steve Teixeira and Mozilla reveals the truth, I’m going to withhold my judgment about how fascistic Mozilla was internally.

          Teixeira claimed Mozilla conducted an audit that found them pretty lacking in the equality department IIRC, and Mozilla’s own lawyers disputed many things but not that.

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        I’d need to be able to choose a non-US server too. And even then, all the major tech firms breached EU laws by later transferring data back to the US. But if I had to trust an American company Mozilla would be among the better choices.

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      Thunderbird and Firefox are developed by separate companies (both under the Mozilla Foundation). Thunderbird is funded through donations. Firefox is funded through (among other sources, such as Pocket and advertisements) the Google search deal. As far as I know it’s not legally feasible (or even possible) for the Firefox money to go to Thunderbird or vice versa.