Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks agoIt’s…complicated.
On one end, a clear sign of “f*** you” with such decisions is important. On the other, Mozilla is already in a rough place, and with so many genuinely good projects, including Waterfox, depending on Firefox or at least Gecko, this is akin to biting the hand that feeds you.
All these teams cannot maintain their own browser engine, and without it, they may as well turn to dust. Thereby, maintaining their upstream is in their best interest.
onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
False.
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Interesting, though Goanna is still a Gecko fork.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
It is, but it’s so divergent these days that 90% of Mozilla patches won’t even apply to the codebase (and presumably vice-versa). My conclusion is that Pale Moon and Goanna are capable of surviving if Firefox development ceases.
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I see
yistdaj@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Pale Moon is criticied precisly because its developers don’t have the resources to keep it fast, feature complete and secure.