TehBamski@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world · 2 days agoMozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunchtechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down13cross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.mltechnews@lemmy.ml
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minus-squaretabular@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoSure, but is Google gonna pay them or you hoping they will do that work for free? A browser doesn’t seem like a hobby project to me.
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoYes, but neither do many of the large open source projects that aren’t funded by Google.
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoMost large scale open source projects at this point are funded by somebody. usually because they have benefit to an enterprise somewhere. But I don’t know if an alternative browser really provides much enterprise support anywhere, sadly.
Sure, but is Google gonna pay them or you hoping they will do that work for free? A browser doesn’t seem like a hobby project to me.
Yes, but neither do many of the large open source projects that aren’t funded by Google.
Most large scale open source projects at this point are funded by somebody. usually because they have benefit to an enterprise somewhere. But I don’t know if an alternative browser really provides much enterprise support anywhere, sadly.