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Do you think developers don't have to eat? or pay rent? And donations alone do not cut it.
Being a developer myself (with no ads in his software), I don’t think you understand my point. The software I write in my free time does not pay my bills. That’s why I also have an actual job.
You are aware that there are full-time developers working at Mozilla, yes? Developing a browser is not a hobby-project that you can pull off with some volunteers in their free time. You need professionals that work on such a giant project with their full attention.
Developing Firefox is their job. And of course they want to get paid for that (and deserve it). Just like you get paid for your actual job.
Please enlighten me: how do they deserve to be paid for a non-profit product?
Non profit does not mean what you think it means
People who work at non-profits aren't volunteering.
Non-profit doesn't mean that there's no employees. They're still organizations that have a cash flow, seek to raise funds, and employ people to serve their mission. Most non-profits have paid employees.
Non profit means their earnings must match their expenses or be used to actually improve the product/service, not that they earn nothing at all
How does someone deserve to be paid for work done? Is that your question?
Is this some kind of pathetic troll attempt?
I will not reward that with further attention.
There is exactly no single reason to make this personal. What I meant is that writing a free piece of software does not necessarily have to be paid work. A variety of popular software tools, including a few web browsers, by the way, is written and maintained in the developers’ free time.
“Doing stuff” is not the same thing as “doing paid work”.
What's making it personal?
Stop being a sophist, you'll have more meaningful conversations.
You simply cannot have a project the size of firefox without paid employees, why do you think chromium, webkit and gecko are the only three webengines