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.
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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.
0·6 months agoKunnen 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?
8·6 months agoWell, yes, except that those X11 developers agree that Wayland is better.
Notably absent: X11 developer saying Wayland is bad, not X11.
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.
2·6 months agoHehe, I can be more explicit: why would Chromium “resist” MV3 when the Chromium developers are the ones pushing it?
2·7 months agoThe spirit of Christmas future.
That’s like asking if I can resist reading a book. Sure I could, but I want to read a book - why would I resist?
0·7 months agoJust wait until corporate finds out what the Dutch Krampus looks like 🙈
Ik heb dat ooit gehad bij een werkgever en mis het nog elke dag 😭
The test to see whether you agree with an argument like this, is imagining people protesting something you are vehemently in favour of. If you’d still agree with it then, then the logic holds.
“The browser chrome” is the name historically given to the parts of the browser that are not the website. Then Google created a web browser and decided to name it after it - but
userChrome.cssexisted before the browser Chrome did :)
Good to hear, I hope that plays out!
Yeah, that’s fair enough. It’s not just working overtime though - endless toil on never-ending projects, especially when at a certain point, you’re not really making visible progress but rather are just working on a seemingly endless list of bugs and papercuts, is also terrible for motivation. The good news, of course, is that the Pop!_OS GNOME extension also got delivered, which, though a lot smaller than COSMIC DE, I’m sure also wasn’t a small undertaking.
0·7 months agoYeah I mean, that’s the thing with marijuana legislation in the Netherlands in general - it’s not legal in the first place. It would, of course, be preferable if it was actually legal (and this might very well be a step on the road to get there), but yes, in practical terms, there’s not too much impact - whereas this plan addresses an actual problem, i.e. criminality involved with the drug supply of coffee shops.
They actually did:
The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA.
Unfortunately, that didn’t help. So now they’ll have to find out what’s causing this, and then see if they can fix it.
Home-grown was already possible. What do you see as the problem with this plan?
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…)