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I wish Apple would acquire Mozilla, use it to improve Safari and then create a privacy first search engine.

• thundermuffin 6y ago
  I had this same wish yesterday. I know it isn't the ideal scenario, but there are definitely some net positives that could come out of it in the form of keeping Mozilla's lights on for a long time to come and massive improvements to areas of Safari that (to me) are worse than competitors such as dev tools and extensions.
• infinityplus1 6y ago
  Then they would completely stop Firefox development in favor of Safari.
  • jmull3n 6y ago
    I'd be hoping they do something like Edge/Chromium and replace Webkit with Gecko along with everything else that's better in Firefox.
    • fsflover 6y ago
      Apple never accepts GPL, not even in App Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3488833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3488833
• deleted 6y ago
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• Polylactic_acid 6y ago
  The most FOSS hostile company in the world acquiring the last properly open source browser does not sound good.
  • jmull3n 6y ago
    Being open source will be irrelevant if nobody uses it anymore. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201002-202008 https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...