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To do that now would be financial suicide. They have several new services, if they manage to get revenue from them they could survive cutting Google. But not before.

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> They have several new services,

Please name these revenue generating services from Mozilla.

From the top of my head, Firefox VPN and Pocket.

What is more disappointing is this is what they have to show for after years of funding from Google.

I get that they have to build a browser but come on. Is that it?

I present to you the Debian Foundation as a counter example. I posit they are surviving just fine without a contract with Google.

The Debian Foundation also doesn't have to compete against Google on a product that costs millions of dollars to build and maintain, and that Google throws billions at in marketing.

Interesting comparison: they do compete against Red Hat, and thus IBM, who I could well believe do spend billions on marketing in the same space.

At various levels it has to compete against Redhat/IBM, Microsoft and other Dekstop and Server OS vendors.

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