Matthew Fennell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@jonny" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jonny</span></a></span> Karen Sandler gave an excellent talk at <a href="https://social.fennell.dev/tags/FOSDEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSDEM</span></a> on saying no to funding: <a href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6481-when-is-it-right-to-say-no-to-funding-/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event</span><span class="invisible">/fosdem-2025-6481-when-is-it-right-to-say-no-to-funding-/</span></a></p><p>What I took away is that compromising your values for funding is always a mistake. Every time you dilute what you stand for, your biggest supporters and believers turn away from you.</p><p>I would love to throw money at Mozilla, if only the money went to the browser, and they stood up for the open web.</p>