Mozilla can already hire from anywhere, too, can't they? > Plus, they can get a lot more software talent for their Euro in the EU (esp. But not from a macroeconomic economic point of view, or just getting bang-for-your-buck. That's, alas, true from a political point of view. > Also, Mozilla is an American company the EU would naturally want to give money to an EU company that hires EU citizens to do such high-value, high-paid work, not send that money to the US. Or perhaps they just have different priorities, and the EU can specifically pay them to do some work on EU priorities? > The reason for forking rather than throwing money at Mozilla is that Mozilla doesn't seem to be doing a great job of managing themselves. (Some people even go so far as claiming that outsourced government projects are worse than in-house ones.) I skimmed over the issue here: my more precise point is that government entities generally aren't good at building things when they outsource the actual building, either. I wouldn't expect EU government employees to work directly on FF, but rather for it to be contracted out to some EU company or companies. Government entities aren't any good at building almost anything, but that's why they contract work out to private companies.

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