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Right, but it doesn't need Google or Microsoft scale to compete. Firefox is a clear example that a smaller organization can manage the complexity of a modern b
by esperent 4y ago
Right, but it doesn't need Google or Microsoft scale to compete.
Firefox is a clear example that a smaller organization can manage the complexity of a modern browser.
There's plenty of other examples too - like linux - which show hugely complex open source projects are possible.
- taftster 4y agoYes, but in the case of both Mozilla and Linux, they had a huge running start and have developed their moats (for what they are) over a long period of time. A new organization coming in fresh and thinking, "hey I know what, let's fork Chromium", does not seem like a very long lived effort. I also don't see any new operating systems coming out from an unknown team anytime soon. The open source projects you use as examples are entrenched, and it's going to take a major shakeup and/or cracks in the large organizations for something new in the browser or operating system space to emerge.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoFirefox is great, but it’s barely hanging on at ~4% marketshare. That might skewed by Firefox users having tracking mitigations set up, but the result is the same regardless: devs and the suits above them calling the shots will see the tiny usership and ask why they’re spending anything on supporting it. It’s barely competing at all.