> [...] support Thunderbird is through donations

I doubt donations to MZLA Technologies Corporation will reach the Thunderbird project in any meaningful way.

They'll just use it to pay their executive salaries.

> I doubt donations to MZLA Technologies Corporation will reach the Thunderbird project in any meaningful way.

You are basing this statement on what data?

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/donate is managed by MZLA, it has one open source product, Thunderbird. We pay a required Thunderbird trademark fee to the Mozilla Foundation and little more than that, which is captured in https://stats.thunderbird.net/#financials.

Or support radical activist groups unrelated to software or technology.

Absolutely bonkers.

Like?

Source: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...

I know people here don’t like Bryan Lunduke, but besides the opinions added, this is factual, sourced reporting.

That kinda proves they would spend it on executive salaries. As the spend on "radical groups" in the article is almost nothing compared to salaries of their management.

This article is from 2023. Recent years they’ve gone into decolonisation, Marxism, anti-capitalism and afro-centrism as well, just to mention a few.

No doubt though that the increase in executive salaries has been way beyond criticism as well.

Their finances seems a total mess and completely hijacked.

Perhaps factual - I can't say.

But it's a different company. EOM.