A rational enough research endeavor – until it begins to lean into some racially charged, off-hand remarks about the nature certain of donations. But that’s Lunduke for you. Realized who I was reading half-way through.

For those who want some context: Lunduke is a conservative IT pundit, and his video and article content tends to read a bit like post hoc justification for his conservative views, when the reality tends to be that his conservative views have more recently been a kind of justification for creating content the way he does.

Know that he is like this in much of his content now. This is just a ‘reader, be aware’ statement, if you find yourself going down the rabbit hole.

This gets spammed every single day. The author has a huge chip on their shoulder about diversity, equality, and treating others well. We get it, you hate queer people, but you’re not going to convince us to do the same.

Many questions:

Why does Mozilla give so much money to political speakers that have no relationship to their core business?

Why does Mozilla seem unconcerned with alienating a large portion of their user base (which is already shrinking)?

Why do some of the recipients of Mozilla money appear to be nothing more than empty shells of companies — not even having a simple website?

Why does Mozilla continue to take donations if it doesn’t need them? And where does Mozilla spend those donated dollars? Do they go to the strange discretionary spending or political organizations?

With the 70%+ reliance on Google (a competitor) for revenue, why is Mozilla spending money on projects that have no goal of being profitable (and have no relation to their core business)? And what happens when the Google funding goes away? Mozilla appears certain that it never will (based on their spending)…. why is that?

Why is Mozilla decreasing software development funding when development of Firefox is the cash cow?