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Firefox has never tried to run on donations though.
You're actually wrong. They did when they started.
I know because I donated
The funny thing is that the people who complain most about stuff like this, tend to be the people who contribute the least.
If you don't like them making money to support development, you're more than welcome to work full time on developing it for free
You're not supporting development, you're supporting a rich guy getting richer:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla
Non-profits of the scale that Mozilla is need good talent to continue to exist. Good talent needs to be paid close to market rates to work for non-profits, and retaining good talent requires even better pay and benefits than just what will get good talent in the door
No matter how much or how little the talent at a nonprofit is paid people will go "why are they paying the CEO a $1 million dollar salary? They could hire 6-8 developers for that much!" "Why are they paying developers 100k/year? Can't they accept 80k for the privilege of working for such an important bastion of the open internet?"
15 million a year is a lot but it's also 1/3 the median CEO pay rate. They have to pay the CEO at least semi-competitively to retain them