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@strangeculprits @kevinrns @Pineywoozle I'm pretty doubtful of your third point -- the support given to Gecko *today* is minuscule - why would organizations attempt to replace Google's revenue entirely, rather than contributing to Chromium or WebKit on the margins? What is more likely -- that developers will gravitate towards forking or contributing to a fully funded codebase with paid developers, or one that has no upstream and will quickly experience user flight? 3 comments
@strangeculprits @kevinrns @Pineywoozle I have no idea what your Twitter comment meant - Firefox *is* the alternative that has paid labor. Floorp is cool, but a developer working on the margins isn't going to keep Gecko going if the upstream dies. Where does your belief come from? Do you have any evidence to support it? For example, Igalia and Microsoft have contributed to Chromium. Google has contributed to WebKit and developed Blink. Where is the extensive outside work coming to for Gecko?  @yoasif @strangeculprits @kevinrns Hello, this thread has officially exceeded by my competency level and my interest.😜 Could you drop me? |
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@yoasif @kevinrns @Pineywoozle
Is your point that Firefox is already dead?
What if people resigned themselves to "well, we're such with Twitter" after Elon bought it, because it (was at the time) well-funded? If that happened, then we're wouldn't even be here in the Fediverse talking about this, or any other, topic.
We believe enough well-funded interests care enough about "free as in freedom" software that there will *always* be FOSS browsers available to the small number is us who truly care.
Indeed, FF was born from the ashes of Netscape, after Microsoft bundled IE with Windows expressly to kill Netscape. We believe FF will have a successor if it goes away. We also believe there are enough current interests to step in and continue to fund FF (though maybe not Mozilla) if Google's money goes away
@yoasif @kevinrns @Pineywoozle
Is your point that Firefox is already dead?
What if people resigned themselves to "well, we're such with Twitter" after Elon bought it, because it (was at the time) well-funded? If that happened, then we're wouldn't even be here in the Fediverse talking about this, or any other, topic.