Funding FF? Maybe. Funding Mozilla? No way, not with my money.
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stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day agoI strongly believe that the EU should fund Mozilla, or a fork of Firefox.
Gecko is the only viable competitor to Blink/WebKit, and it is needed
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why?
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 1 day ago
Firefox is just the browser, Mozilla is the organization constantly wasting money on features Firefox’s users are actively hostile to in a bid to tempt away people already using Chrome. Not the OP, but I’d be down to donate to Firefox’s development directly, but I wouldn’t want to make a donation to Mozilla hoping it would go toward Firefox, only to find out they took my money to build some new LLM integration that nobody asked for, only to sit unused for years before being quietly shuttered in favor of the new tech buzzword of the day.
raldone01@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah I really hope there will be some way to tie donations directly to FF development.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Maybe funding components would be better than funding mozilla. Eg: 2 engineers for Gecko
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
Govts around the world should be funding all sorts of FOSS projects. I know they do to some degree but not much. It benefits the whole world and only hurts big tech.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That prospect becomes less and less likely the more government is bought and paid for by Big Tech.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 15 hours ago
This is what people don’t understand. Those in power, whether they’re part of the government, a wealthy CEO, or a religious leader, will do what benefits themselves if they think they can get away with it. We keep talking about powerful organizations and what they could do to benefit everyone, but fail to realize that powerful people don’t want to benefit everyone.
They only do what benefits everyone if they feel like they can’t get away with just doing what benefits themselves. It’s our responsibility to make sure they don’t think they can get away with it, and clearly strongly-worded letters and quippy signs held outside their offices for an afternoon or two isn’t enough to do that.