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> I think a LibreOffice-style hard fork will be necessary at some point with a nonprofit carrying Firefox forward. It doesn't have to be a hard fork. A new co
by grey_earthling 6y ago
> I think a LibreOffice-style hard fork will be necessary at some point with a nonprofit carrying Firefox forward.
It doesn't have to be a hard fork.
A new community could do a soft-fork of the Firefox codebase, like Ubuntu does with Debian. (Or even like Seamonkey!)
There have been several attempts at this, but they never consolidated into a clearly-presented single alternative (like LibreOffice, Ubuntu, or Glimpse image editor).
If there is enough interest in maintaining a viable browser that isn't controlled by a large corporation, would funding for the new project emerge from the likes of Red Hat?