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> spin off the browser to technically-focused (cf policy focused) group

Browser development is the main project of the technically-focused Mozilla Corporation, while it looks to me like the project here is under the policy-focused Mozilla Foundation.

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Thank you!! People constantly conflate the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation.

Strange that people would confuse thing with wholly owned subsidiary of thing, yes.

Especially when this press release isn't trying very hard to make the distinction clear

We all know it's a technicality used for finance and separation of accountability.

In any other sane universe we'd call these shell corporations and tax avoidance schemes.

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