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

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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.