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I think it is pretty well accepted that they fund Firefox just to avoid being a monopoly with Chrome. The other stuff is just icing on the cake
by Melatonic 4y ago
I think it is pretty well accepted that they fund Firefox just to avoid being a monopoly with Chrome. The other stuff is just icing on the cake
- boomboomsubban 4y agoThen why do they pay Apple far more money for the same service?
- MathMonkeyMan 4y agoI suspect there are far more iPhone Safari users than firefox users overall.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoWell yeah, that's why Apple gets a much bigger check. But they still buy the same thing on Safari where it's hard to claim it's for an eventual antitrust case.
- kovac 4y agoThat and to keep the open source community pacified. If Firefox wasn't around it's very likely that the community will develop something much better which may be completely out of control for corporations.
- burnished 4y agoHow do you figure? 'the community' isn't very interested in ergonomics or onboarding, see Linux distros.
- wodenokoto 4y agoWell, they did fund Firefox since long before chrome. Maybe the reason is the same as why they "fund" Safari.