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

    comments claiming mozilla doesn’t need the money make me feel i’m crazy. you actually think making a modern web engine that competes with chrome in terms of performance and compatibility is easy? that relying solely on donations from individuals and voluntary work are gonna cut it? if it was that easy, we’d have more than just gecko, webkit and webkit fork – but we don’t.

    it also truly drives me insane when people bring up the forks, as if they’re anything more than re-skins.

    without financial backing, mozilla is dead, firefox is dead, and the web will be 100% google’s. no project as large and complex as firefox stays afloat without corporate-level money.

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      2 months ago

      No but maybe the C-level guys don’t need multiple millions while the actual developers don’t hardly get paid in comparison.

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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      Mint is based on Ubuntu which in turn based on Debian.

      Mint is neither developing OS, or Linux kernel from scratch.

      On the other hand, Mozilla is maintaining Firefox browser and most importantly Gecko JS engine all by itself.