Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months agoThey are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?
Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months agoThey are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.