• beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
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    2 days ago

    ff forks depend on mozilla’s work. if mozilla dies, they die

    also, again, making the browser is only part of mozilla’s job

    • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      What I meant was that the could just start doing what they were already doing with the fork already having the same code under the hood. Kind of like how LibreOffice happened after the holders of OpenOffice pulled their shit. Obviously Mozilla is more than just FF. They just keep it from being directly donated to, which is at least some money they just seem to not want. I also know that pure donation-based funding is nowhere near what they lose Google’s money. But it is very frustrating that basically all of their other services have options to donate or sub to them directly.