I’m not convinced it requires 1/2 a billion dollars to keep Mozilla running. I think Mozilla is mismanaged, wasteful, easily distracted by unrelated projects, & bogged down with ‘bullshit jobs.’
I’ve yet to see convincing evidence to the contrary short of folks simply telling me ‘developing browsers is insanely expensive!’
I always see the same developing browsers is hard sentiment. But if it’s not true, why hasn’t a completely free open source volunteer team created a popular usable browser yet?
I’m not convinced it requires 1/2 a billion dollars to keep Mozilla running. I think Mozilla is mismanaged, wasteful, easily distracted by unrelated projects, & bogged down with ‘bullshit jobs.’
I’ve yet to see convincing evidence to the contrary short of folks simply telling me ‘developing browsers is insanely expensive!’
I always see the same developing browsers is hard sentiment. But if it’s not true, why hasn’t a completely free open source volunteer team created a popular usable browser yet?
There are other open source browsers/engines.
Aside from that, Imo, it’s not cheap to do what Mozilla is doing, but 1/2 billion annually is probably more than enough.
I believe thar be grifting in them waters.
That’s happening right now: https://ladybird.org/
Like implementing fucking ai