• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There’s unfortunately no getting around that maintaining a secure and performant web engine is a highly expensive endeavour. There’s a reason why it’s just Google, Mozilla, and Apple left (and Apple doesn’t even try to implement all the web standards).

    If not Google, it’d probably be Bing, or some other extremely wealthy company trying to get something out of Mozilla.

    Every time Mozilla has tried to diversify their income, people complain about them trying to make money/commercialise. I mean I don’t like it either, but they’re in a tough spot.

    At least with Google there’s a possible antitrust case if they suddenly pulled funding, given their market position.

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      4 months ago

      I’m not disagreeing on them being in a tough spot when they try making money, but the corporate side of Mozilla does some shady financial stuff, only to pay their CEO.