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We must "fight browser monoculture" by making Firefox the dominant browser instead of Chrome? Firefox would become "independent" if it became dependent on donat

We must "fight browser monoculture" by making Firefox the dominant browser instead of Chrome? Firefox would become "independent" if it became dependent on donations? This guy later on stresses that we must have free software engines, that we can't have Google owning most of the market. But Blink is licensed under GPL and BSD... So is Chromium IIRC. >Currently Mozilla Firefox is a genuinely free browser, but it might not exist for long if main sponsor Yahoo! pulls the plug on their sponsorship and Mozilla can’t find a way to finance its development There will always be a search company interested in being the default of the browser with the second largest market share.

coldtea 11y ago
>This guy later on stresses that we must have free software engines, that we can't have Google owning most of the market. But Blink is licensed under GPL and BSD... So is Chromium IIRC. This doesn't mean much. Being open source is just the first required step. What teams/community contributes to a project matters too regarding it not being controlled by a single company. If Google engineers stopped working on Blink tomorrow it wouldn't turn into some magically organic open source community project. That would take hard work, and tons of volunteers, and might not even happen.