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[–] giddy@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

MOZILLA could be doomed. Firefox? Not so much

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[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 2 months ago

What wouldn't I be able to access without compatibility investments? Spotify, LinkedIn? I think I'm fine.

Besides, what's the point of OSS that is owned 85% by a big company?

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Linux Mint puts out a great OS for a few thousand per month. With the start it's got, Firefox could go on for decades without more income.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Open source aint going anywheres, no worries here

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Browser codebase is really complex and requires dedicated dev effort.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Open-source projects like this require dozents of full-time developers. It will be dead without a company like Mozilla running it. Imagine the Linux kernel with only hobbyist developers...

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[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago

I fail to see how this is new news, we have known this for years now, no?

I looked at their finances --which anyone can do-- and even if Google were to remove their funding tomorrow, Mozilla still has about 2-3 years of reserve capital they can burn through. Not optimal but it is not like they will disappear in a year.

Clearly, not a position they would want to be in, but they are not disappearing overnight.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 months ago

Jeez why are mozilla execs the dumbest people in the fucking room! Next they will say the earth is a spheroid.

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