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Organization with hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue and spend can't maintain servers?

I would wonder if this is really something much simpler: an excuse to make things read-only, while implying that people really should give them money if they want things to work.

Really, I can't lose any more respect for Mozilla at this point. It's all gone.

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If you have ever done subcontracting work or been a supplier to a major automotive corps, you’ll know the can be extremely late to pay at times. They use their muscle to get a free line of credit from their suppliers by simply demanding to get an extra 30 days on their deadline every month.

Not saying this is Mozilla’s policy, just pointing out it may be an accident or it may be a lack of funds, or something entirely different.

I’ve done things similar to this as a purchasing manager (in a different industry). Providers sometimes required a payment schedule that was critical to their cashflow (and I did feel very sympathetic), but I had to pressure them into a very unfavorable schedule - otherwise the contract would never be approved by finance. Small companies sometimes had hard time understanding that there were rules I simply couldn’t bend, and it was rather unpleasant at times.

However, that was always sorted out during negotiations.

> supplier to a major automotive corps, you’ll know the can be extremely late to pay at times.

I'll add telcos to this list. Absolutely the worst customers to have. Net90 paid on time was a good thing.

I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected. But I do not trust coincidences.

I guess the money stops flowing when you di not need a monopoly fig leave, because the monopoly busters are exited.

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