• ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Even if they did so, isn’t Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don’t have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

    • tabular@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Sure, but is Google gonna pay them or you hoping they will do that work for free? A browser doesn’t seem like a hobby project to me.

      • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 days ago

        Yes, but neither do many of the large open source projects that aren’t funded by Google.

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          1 day ago

          Most large scale open source projects at this point are funded by somebody. usually because they have benefit to an enterprise somewhere. But I don’t know if an alternative browser really provides much enterprise support anywhere, sadly.