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Why don’t others consider Firefox as worth funding? The EU is spending 1e9€ over a decade to build a neuroinformatics platform. It seems like having a major b
by marmaduke 6y ago
Why don’t others consider Firefox as worth funding?
The EU is spending 1e9€ over a decade to build a neuroinformatics platform.
It seems like having a major browser not beholden to corporate interests on another continent could be at least as beneficial as speculative science projects
(1000 employees at 50k€/yr puts Firefox in a similar price range)
- Theodores 6y agoExactly. Governments need to communicate with whomever they govern and in their language. It should be a strategic imperative to have a browser that isn't reporting back to Silicon Valley with every click and that can be the defacto in a given locale. Browsers are expected to be for free. The work done on developing the things has been done. At least up to where they are now. There is no god given right for browser developers to be on a money train. We have standards and governments that give a damn about things like education should be making sure that they have a standards compliant browser for their citizens to use. None of this up to the free market malarkey as it doesn't work with a free product.
- eitland 6y agoProblem is there is no realistic way to fund Firefox development that I know of - there's only ways to fund Mozilla - and that was not my intention originally and less and less now.