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Maintaining a successful project takes A LOT of work. For something this size it’s not a side projects amount of work. How do the people working on it get mone
by mfer 5y ago
Maintaining a successful project takes A LOT of work. For something this size it’s not a side projects amount of work.
How do the people working on it get money to cover their bills? If they don’t have this they will work on something that does that.
A financial model is usually the blocker.
Consider this, a lot of the people who work on Linux or many other projects are corporate backed. The companies pay the developers.
- secondaryacct 5y agoAnd the clients pay the companies. When we ll start buying browsers they ll stop tracking us
- kgwxd 5y agoUnlikely. I can't name even 1 major paid for product that doesn't have telemetry and other forms of tracking.
- qwerty456127 5y agoPerhaps, but they will still optimize to maximize sales then, i.e. do what sells to as many people as possible, not what is good for you (an advanced user in particular). In fact I'm Okay with Firefox but would rather pay for a good alternative to Facebook where I would be a customer rather than a commodity.
- folkrav 5y agoI'd be willing to bet whichever paid browser popped up would both still keep the telemetry _and_ fuck us with subscription based, you-won't-ever-own-your-browser payment scheme.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoIs it becoming a truism that (in this space) the profit motive will inevitably lead to user abuse? Maybe we need more 501c3 and benefit corps providing basic stuff like an internet browser?
- maccolgan 5y agocough Mozilla is dead in the water cough
- zdragnar 5y agoThe mozilla Foundation doesn't provide their browser, the mozilla for-profit subsidiary corporation does.
- nsonha 5y agoNationalize new browsers and OSes' development, or subsidize them. Governments do it with things like energy, space tech aviation and even telecom, but surprisingly not their software foundation.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoI guess the French would be in a position to do so. They've already adopted some infrastructure software projects into their governmental operations, not only using them, but also participating and maintaining them. They also have many initiatives mandating the use of open source where applicable, and also suggestions of liability for closed source software by law. Harr! Unheard of! Those naughty Gauls!