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Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy
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ff forks depend on mozilla's work. if mozilla dies, they die
also, again, making the browser is only part of mozilla's job
Except for Pale Moon, but it's not exactly a great experience to use.
what do you mean? does pale moon develop its own browser engine?
What I meant was that the could just start doing what they were already doing with the fork already having the same code under the hood. Kind of like how LibreOffice happened after the holders of OpenOffice pulled their shit. Obviously Mozilla is more than just FF. They just keep it from being directly donated to, which is at least some money they just seem to not want. I also know that pure donation-based funding is nowhere near what they lose Google's money. But it is very frustrating that basically all of their other services have options to donate or sub to them directly.
libreoffice has the document foundation behind it, which is basically a continuation of the oo.o team after oracle bought sun: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/
mozilla is already an independent foundation. i don't think the situations are comparable at all