Comment by vntok
1 year ago
"A few years" is at least 10 years, though. That's a lot of time to pivot or get morally sounder funding sources (users for example).
1 year ago
"A few years" is at least 10 years, though. That's a lot of time to pivot or get morally sounder funding sources (users for example).
A decade seems optimistic to me, personally.
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I doubt user funding would cover more than a small fraction of the costs. Someone crunched the numbers in the Lobsters comments, and compared it to Wikipedia's funding. They concluded Mozilla would have to be more popular than Wikipedia to make it work, and it almost certainly isn't.
I think an intergovernmental EU funding initiative might work, though.