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Mozilla brought in $450M last year because Google wanted to be the search engine on its free software. You can give software away and make money in other ways. Plenty of software companies do it and it's a perfectly valid business model. Small company does not "lose", and $450M is not small

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And a lot of this went for non-technical parts of the organisation, and technical talent got laid off.

Fucking suits.

Mozilla brought in $450M last year because Google didn't want to be involved in an antitrust action. Conflict between Mozilla and Google is keyfabe; Mozilla is virtually a subsidiary of Google.

I understood that this deal is now expiring?

It's a contract for a few years. They'll probably re-up it, the question is for how much money.

According to this report, they already re-upped it

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/08/13/0012243/mozilla-ext...

Then why in the name of space balls did they fire like 25% of their dev team?

Because they they already re-upped it, why spend more money when you already got the rewards? That is what happens when a company doesn't care about the product.

Because income is lower than expenses.

Oh wow. So from a financial standpoint they're not in a radically different position to earlier years (assuming between 10-20% more in other revenues), in fact seems as if they have approx 100M$ more coming in as revenue in comparison to the previous year of comparison (2018) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google

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