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Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important. Also a single feature can be unprofitable if it helps to drive the related products.

First argument is more relevant, I see it as underestimated the risk there and coming out of a technical experiment ...

That all said: Mozilla Corp's "focussing" doesn't convince me.

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> Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important.

“Non-profit” doesn’t mean “don’t make profits” or “set a pile of money on fire”.

> Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important.

I included that argument because it's mentioned explicitly by them:

> as we weighed the cost of our overall portfolio and strategic focus, we made the decision not to relaunch the service.

This doesn't imply the benefits that were weighted against the costs were monetary.

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