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What is so different about browsers? Why can we have the whole galaxy of free software with the various distributions and desktop environments and entire kerne
by Teever 6y ago
What is so different about browsers?
Why can we have the whole galaxy of free software with the various distributions and desktop environments and entire kernel ecosystems and device drivers free of this kind of monetization yet somehow this is impossible with browsers?
I don't think twice about using Debian, Freebsd, Openbsd, or Openwrt.
What the hell is going on with Mozilla and Firefox?
- themacguffinman 6y agoThe consumer marketshare of desktop Linux/BSD and its ecosystem is tiny, something like 2% AFAIK. Mozilla is probably not happy for Firefox to occupy a similar browser marketshare, that would likely mean the end of Mozilla's influence on web standards. A lot of the remaining OSS ecosystem benefits corporate software development and is already supported by corporate backers.
- marcthe12 6y agoBrowsers scope is so huge(and none of them is sufficiently modular). FOSS Software of that size and scope is usually require at the minimum donation from companies use it.