| ▲ | doubled112 7 months ago |
| And Thunderbird? |
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| ▲ | kbrosnan 7 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| It is the MZLA Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation a wholly owned part of the Mozilla Foundation. |
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| ▲ | edoceo 7 months ago | parent [-] | | How did they even get this corporation owned by a foundation situation? That just seems like some kind of tax trick. | | |
| ▲ | boomboomsubban 7 months ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes. Mozilla was originally only the non profit, but it was ruled that selling the search rights violated nonprofit status. So they paid a couple million in back taxes and had to spin off a corporate entity that's fully owned by the nonprofit. | | | |
| ▲ | no_wizard 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Novo Norodisk has a similar corporate structure, being owned majority by the Novodisk Foundation[0] [0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/novo-nordisks-unique-structur... | |
| ▲ | thayne 7 months ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's a "we want to sell something, but non-profits aren't allowed to do that" trick. And it means the for-profit subsidiary has to pay normal taxes. OpenAI is structured the same way, so they can sell access to their models. At least until it switches to being entirely for-profit, if that is allowed to happen. |
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| ▲ | major505 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My guess. is going to be sold to a tech giant, and probably extinct. Maybe Microsoft buy it and rename as outlook for Linux. |
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| ▲ | alfiedotwtf 7 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Last time I heard, Thunderbird has zero people on it for years but eventually they manage to afford to pay someone part time to work on it :smh: |
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