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Izkatayesterday at 1:41 AM2 repliesview on HN

> And anything done to make that profit will annoy the community.

I don't keep close track of this, but as far as I remember they haven't tried donations that go only to Firefox/Thunderbird/etc of the person's choice, instead of Mozilla as a whole. That's what people always claim they want in these threads. I doubt donations would be enough, but I think doing it like that would at least be a step in a direction people like instead of are annoyed by, as long as they don't go nagging like Wikipedia.


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e2leyesterday at 5:54 PM

Thunderbird is entirely funded by donations for some years now and is more than enough. In 2024, Thunderbird received $10.3M (19% increase over the previous year) in donations which was used to employ 43 people.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-...

dblohm7yesterday at 4:30 AM

They do that for Thunderbird now.