Mozilla's blog post about new leadership perfectly illustrates a core issue (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/):
The new members/roles of the board are all introduced with the big tech companies they come from (Twitter, Google, Walmart, Uber etc.)

And sure that comes with a lot of experience running a company and organization, I am not saying that those people don't have skills. But given their resume they also have immense paychecks. And there is very little information about why they should steer one of the most influential organizations in the free software space.

That's the issue. Further corporate logic instead of thinking fresh about what role an organization such as Mozilla could and should play.

Updates on Mozilla's Leadership and Growth Planning | The Mozilla Blog

Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do – and renewing our leadership. Today we announced several updates on the leader

So much this comment on LWN:

"While we still mention Firefox in this press release because it's the only thing we do that anyone actually wants us to do, we will also do a thing nobody wants, a thing nobody wants, and ask for money."

https://lwn.net/Articles/1010925/

Sigh [LWN.net]

@tante Honestly I would have no problems paying for Firefox, even a subscription would be acceptable.

@bluescarni

You can get Relay Unlimited or Mozilla VPN.
AFAIK the only option to directly support Mozilla Corporation (the non-profit part responsible for Firefox)

https://relay.firefox.com/
https://www.mozilla.org/products/vpn/

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@tante

It seems to me, problem is Firefox, the thing that we want them to do, makes no money, and cannot be sustained on its own, so we have two options:

1) depend on Google forever. Everyone hates this

2) Find some other way to sustain development, like ads, or something else. Everyone hates this too.

Not sure how to solve this, anyone have a better idea? Third thing that I'm not seeing?

tante (@[email protected])

(I do believe that it would be a great idea for the EU to form an independent but well-funded public agency to take in those core infrastructure projects including their developers, designers, etc. and let people work towards building a better digital world. But EU also just thinks about startups. So yeah.) https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114036380419672873

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@tante If, as the comments in your linked threads suggest that they're only interested in startups, maybe they could fund Servo well enough to develop it into a decent browser.