Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoOpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experiencearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIdeally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they’re mind-bogglingly complicated and costly. I’d really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium. I don’t think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.
minus-squaredoodledup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYou can’t finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn’t like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.
Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.
Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they’re mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.
I’d really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.
I don’t think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.
You can’t finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn’t like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.