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Hey, we have the evil Microsoft empire :) Or the Apple alternative. Maintaining a browser engine including patching the latest vulnerabilities when someone poi
by red_admiral 4mo ago
Hey, we have the evil Microsoft empire :) Or the Apple alternative.
Maintaining a browser engine including patching the latest vulnerabilities when someone points Mythos at your code is a really hard problem, my feeling is you need a certain size of organization and funding as your table stakes.
Someone should convince the EU to look into funding a new browser, maybe.
- zelphirkalt 4mo agoWhat if the EU bought some big chunk of Mozilla, something like Mozilla EU, and then ran it? Would the US then cry out against EU buying US companies and start to fund Mozilla?
- nosioptar 4mo agoAmerican here. We'd bitch, piss, and moan about the EU buying US companies. We wouldn't fund Firefox though, we'd be more likely to give a huge government contract to facebook to reskin chrome or some other stupid shit.
- red_admiral 4mo agoThere's a sort of precedent for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Bridge State won't fund your bridge repair? You can always ask the Soviet Union.
- zelphirkalt 4mo agoInteresting! Though maybe these days we could ask China instead.
- rapnie 4mo agoServo [0] is EU funded via NLnet. You can build a browser from that. [0] https://servo.org/ https://servo.org/
- 3683826312819 4mo ago[dead]