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If you can find a very generous fund which can unconditionally grant you tens of millions of dollars every year, there might be a hope in your proposal. Ironica
by summerlight 4y ago
If you can find a very generous fund which can unconditionally grant you tens of millions of dollars every year, there might be a hope in your proposal. Ironically, the closest example was the Mozilla-Google deal because Google needs them to avoid antitrust charges. Also I'd like to mention that it would be quite hard to motivate talented engineers to work just on simple merging works.
- cyber_kinetist 4y agoI think what Google has done (accidentally or deliberately) is perfect: drown Mozilla in search-deal grant money to attract executives and manager types to do all sorts of vanity projects that lead to nowhere, so they can maintain their gimped "competitior" browser that lets them non-guilty of antitrust charges. It's counter-intuitive, but a continuously running money hose sometimes seem to attract these types of people and corrupt an organization. Ironically Google itself internally has this problem, where its limitless advertising revenue is being absorbed to all these shiny projects which people never really care about maintaining and its sole purpose is to advanced people's careers inside the company...