Comment by PaulHoule
1 year ago
Then they should fork it and start a new organization.
The EU and the world could have a privacy focused browser if they paid for it. If they don't they're going to always be waiting for the market to do it and it won't. Given that Mozilla wastes a lot of resources on things that are thoroughly pizzled (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac) a browser could be maintained for much less than the current Mozilla budget. This is why "fully funded" as opposed to "funded" is key. So long as the organization feels the need to go around with its hat out it is going to be corrupt.
They can fork Chromium instead. Doesn't mean Firefox is the best base to start.
… and there are many Chromium forks out there. For web standards to really be standards and not “Chromium” there has to be a viable non-Chromium browser.
The illusion of choice:
You can have any color car as long as its black. I mean you can run any browser you want, as long as its Chrome.
If Firefox had 90% of the market would it be a choice?
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