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Mozilla is only as strong as the community. In recent years it's been like a red Panda backed in a corner and tried everything to get offset the contribution of Google. But rather than focus on money, it should've focused on community. No matter how many bucks Mozilla chases, it will never match what Google contributes. But no matter how much Google pays Mozilla, it should pale in comparison to the value of community contributions. Sadly Mozilla only value code contributions, not realising that pull requests come thicker and faster with real community engagement. They hired a bunch of people that don't care for the community and as such community engagement dwindled.
while i must agree on community portion (i personally dont partake) even the money contribution is but a wet fart
What google pays mozilla for their search engine deal: 450 million
What google pays apple for the same deal: 15 billion by the time google made this deal mozilla had lost their voice
as much as i hate anything google (i use firefox myself), mozilla lost most of its power to make a compelling argument and the community or rather the people who jumped on the google wagon are very much just as much t blame as google itself