It’s almost like this not-for-profit, for-profit subsidiary thing is a cancer (or at least, my selection bias of late thinks so).
Can someone ELI5 why a foundation can’t develop these products directly, with a for-profit subsidiary? Is there something forbidden about rasing revenue for a not-for-profit via product sales? Would this even fix anything?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
We need a truly FOSS browser that developed and maintained by the community. Librewolf isn’t it unless it fully forks away from Mozilla. We need a new engine and we just don’t have one yet.
negativenull@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ladybird Browser is coming, but could be a couple years still
grue@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ew. It ought to be AGPLv3.
(I almost just said “copyleft,” but as Chromium proves, even LGPL is insufficient protection from corporate usurpation.)
tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 months ago
Truly; it’s shocking how much people are still clinging to permissive licensing in the middle of everything going on.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Backed by Shopify, huh? Bet they wish that wasn’t the case, given recent events.
dan@upvote.au 3 months ago
The web platform is huge… It’s going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sounds like a job for JoMiran! Rooting for you!
cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I agree. I’d even be willing to regularly donate to a foundation that would have this aim as their goal and have their acts matching their promises.
Although, not necessarily a new engine. Going from scratch is a good way to remake a lot of mistakes, while reusing old code is a good way to keep old debt. That’s not a decision I would like to have to take.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Why a new engine, Firefox is open source?!
Fork Firefox.
But good luck funding a team to keep up with commercial companies’ pace. It needs funding.
If Mozilla made a way to donate in a way that I KNEW it would go towards the maintenance of the browser, and not another crappy thing they’re trying to be profitable, I’d donate in a second. I spend about £30/month on OSS donations and I’d happily add £5/month to Mozilla if I trusted them not to misspend it.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
You answered the question yourself. The worry is that without a hard fork that is fully maintained we’ll continue to have a dependence on Mozilla. It doesn’t need to be a new engine, but it does need to be an independent one.