Of note is that the Corporation CEO is paid from Corporation revenues, i.e. primarily the Google search deal. Firefox development very likely could not be supported by donations alone, and the Corporation can't take donations for it.
Donations to the Foundation go to the Foundation's advocacy work, and projects like Common Voice.
They wouldn't. The Corporation is a separate entity, I believe for tax reasons, allowing them to hold more money. I don't think that it's allowed to use it as a loophole to avoid regulations that apply to foundations, while still using that money to fund Foundation projects.
AFAIK the only way money flows from the Corporation to the Foundation is by the Co paying royalties to the Foundation for the use of the Firefox trademark. Obviously exactly how that number is determined is a little fuzzy, but I don't think it (legally) can be just any number - it has to be justified somewhat. In any case, the Corporation is not short of money, so if the Foundation wanted more money to flow from it to the Foundation, a shortage of money due to CEO pay is not the reason.
(You are definitely right in the sense that Co money could be used to fund more Co projects. Those are not the same initiatives that would be funded by donations to the Foundation though, as money doesn't flow from it to the Co. Think Common Voice, MozFest, lobbying, Privacy Not Included...)
I mean, depending on what you mean by "purposely", I just think there's no good way in general to determine the exact worth of the use of a trademark.
The restricted assets remain the same as last year: a “tax reserve fund” established in 2005 for a portion of the revenue the Mozilla Foundation received that year from the search engine providers. As noted last year, the IRS has opened an audit of the Mozilla Foundation.
Since the Corporation was founded on August 3, 2005 - this might've been the reason? Before the Corporation existed, the Foundation had to receive the money from the search engine providers directly (and the "tax reserve fund" sounds like creative accounting to hold on to that money, potentially leading to the audit), whereas later, the Corporation could hold on to it and pay taxes over it like a regular corporation does.
I’m a Mozilla fan, but I’m not a fan of income inequality, and Mozilla is contributing to it.
I'm with you here, and I'm not saying that the ratio CEO pay:employee pay is a good one. All I'm saying is that the money used to fund the CEO pay could not have been used to fund Foundation projects like Common Voice, as far as I'm aware.
Kunnen we wel het variabel eigen risico afschaffen? De enige reden om niet het maximale eigen risico te nemen (en dus meer premie te betalen) is als je medische issues hebt, of weinig geld hebt en geen potentiële hoge kosten kunt opvangen.
Meer moeten betalen als je arm bent - dat kan toch niet de bedoeling zijn?
Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....
Melissa en haar man raken gegrepen door het idee dat een ‘autonoom’ leven wellicht de oplossing voor hun financiële problemen is.||Een groeiende groep Nederlanders gelooft erin: ‘soeverein’ of ‘autonoom’ worden. Een leven in het teken van autonomie, waarbij je je onttrekt aan de staat en niet langer dezelfde...
I think it's just because some things have country-specific formats. For example, if you want to prefill credit card details, you have to figure out how the credit card fields are labelled.
I'm assuming you've already found it, but just in case you didn't: Framework has setup guides for Fedora, which presumably should make everything work as intended. Find your device on this page, then click "Fedora 39 Setup Guide" on the right-hand side: https://frame.work/linux
Firefox just suggested I should use firefox relay. I don’t mind suggesting that and do a little advertisement. BUT I have protonpass installed which should do that job. Firefox interferes with my browsing which isn’t nice.
I'm fairly sure that that's unintentional behaviour. I reported it here, but if you have additional info to share there (e.g. your browser version), that would be fantastic: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1870820
This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I’m not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I’m sharing it.
they try to reinvent the desktop experience every 2 or 3 years
GNOME 3 was released 12 years ago, and hasn't changed that much (unless you consider horizontal virtual workspaces are a major paradigm shift somehow).
Just use something else if you don't like it; no one's "pushing" anything on to you. Clearly, other people do like it.
mozilla made it, 3.3 million in donations!
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Minister waarschuwt: Zorgpremie moet met 25 euro per maand omhoog als eigen risico wordt afgeschaft (www.ad.nl) Dutch
Dure grap voor iedereen die vrijwel geen zorg gebruikt…
How to mourn your friend’s characters
KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)
Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....
Melissa (48) geloofde dat ze autonoom kon worden en zit elf jaar later nog steeds in de schulden (pointer.kro-ncrv.nl) Dutch
Melissa en haar man raken gegrepen door het idee dat een ‘autonoom’ leven wellicht de oplossing voor hun financiële problemen is.||Een groeiende groep Nederlanders gelooft erin: ‘soeverein’ of ‘autonoom’ worden. Een leven in het teken van autonomie, waarbij je je onttrekt aan de staat en niet langer dezelfde...
Firefox 122 Enters Public Beta Testing with Improved Built-In Translation Feature (9to5linux.com)
Petitie - Bescherm Nederlandse burgers tegen online tracking (theprivacycollective.nl) Dutch
Can Chromium resist Manifest V3 or is it doomed to disallow adblockers?
What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?
I find unusual spirits interesting, and I want to hear about the ones you have.
Cool fancy programs?
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Krampus - Sarah's Scribbles (Sarah Andersen) (64.media.tumblr.com)
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Soepelere regels voor ov-kaart van de baas: 'Ov wordt zo aantrekkelijker' (nos.nl) Dutch
Er wordt enthousiast gereageerd op het besluit om het makkelijker te maken voor bedrijven ov-abonnementen te verstrekken aan werknemers.
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
I need some help with linux energy management and hibernation
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How to disable firefox relay?
Firefox just suggested I should use firefox relay. I don’t mind suggesting that and do a little advertisement. BUT I have protonpass installed which should do that job. Firefox interferes with my browsing which isn’t nice.
Utrecht: opkoopbescherming werkt, meer woningen naar starters (nos.nl) Dutch
Het aantal starters op de woningmarkt groeide: van 26 procent in de tweede helft van 2012 naar 53 procent het afgelopen halfjaar.
Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (ludditus.com)
This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I’m not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I’m sharing it.