… I mean, WTF. Mozilla, you had one job …

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    2 months ago

    What do you want? A Mozilla with no income? Because then there is no libre browser.

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      2 months ago

      Can you imagine a world where Linux wasn’t directly getting paid by Amazon to hook all your machines up to AWS? You can’t! And how could vim possibly be developed without dropbox integration and sponsorship, that would never work. There is no way a world exists where Krita doesn’t sell all your drawings to OpenAI, how are they going to make any money?

      None of these nice things could exist if they weren’t selling out their users, that’s just reality.

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        2 months ago

        Yes I get your point. Some software can run without a large income stream, on a volunteer basis.

        You’re using that fact to say that Firefox also can. And if you care to look at my profile you’ll see I’ve argued time and time again that Mozilla is an overblown organisation and should be slimmed down to a couple of hundred, working solely on the browser.

        I doubt, however, that you can build a modern, up-to-date browser on a volunteer basis.

        How many full-time people do you think it takes?

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          2 months ago

          Linux has full time developers. Blender has full time developers. Lots of other projects have full time developers. They still don’t sell my data to Google.

          A web browser is a very visible piece of software, relied upon by end users, businesses and governments alike. I’m sure enough people and organizations would donate their time and money to fund this, if it existed.