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ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

We’ve already seen many other browsers stop development, like (…) LibreWolf, due to lack of resources.

Wait, what?

Two things:

  1. When did Librewolf stop development?

  2. On funding, they say in their FAQ:

If we don’t need funding, we won’t risk becoming dependent on it. And also: no donations means no expectations. This means that people working on LibreWolf are free to move on to other projects whenever they want.

Librewolf seems to very consciously not looking for “resources” from advertising or donations, or etc. The only resource they seem to want is motivation.

Which I think is one of the big issues with OSS projects - many are based around a very small number of people being motivated to work on something for free. And it dies if that stops.

I think that having expectations and funding to continue is important, like you say.

But I’m still confused about what you mean by the “resources” comment re: Librewolf.

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