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@riaschissl Let me turn that question around. How did Red Hat get so successful, also including being financially solid ? What about LibreOffice? OpenSSL have paid staff now. WolfSSL (which has Curl devs on their payroll, AFAIR), OpenVPN, Forgejo ... just to mention some very few more or less random things. Even Linux Foundation has lots of people on their payrolls. And don't look primarily at what they achieve today, but how they got there over time. A common denominator is that they provide additional paid services built on top of the projects they started. As well as adding support services. Many also gets donations. There are as many approaches to becoming sustainable as there are projects. But to achieve all this, the base foundation of the project need trust and credibility. Just look at what Codeberg has achieved over the years. They've organised themselves to first of all build trust and credibility among software communities. GNOME and KDE communities, same thing. And there are guaranteed others who have managed similar things as well. Mozilla seems to be more focused on burning bridges to the community, by taking steps which alienates their core community. They give an impression that the size of the paychecks the management and administration receives is much more important. And to afford that, they take steps to increase their revenues by putting that before the core principles the organisation had earlier. When the organisation takes a step to remove promises users have taken for granted for years, promises which generally makes a lot of sense when claiming to care about privacy, that is a huge red flag that the organisation is on the wrong path. So when Mozilla loses credibility and trust, that will result in a negative impact on their revenue stream as well as a consequence.