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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

I feel like of a group of dedicated Firefox engineers should fork the source code and start their own company.

If they would focus on adding really useful features at a rapid pace, people would be willing to pay for it.

Similiar to Kagi, if you make a really good software, you will get a group of dedicated people to support you.

Just a tech company without these super expensive CEOs that are not needed in a smaller company.

[–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Lol. Firefox cost of development is $500 milions a year. Stop bs. No one can develop a browser anymore, even Microsoft. And the salary of CEO is not the problem.

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same magnitude. We can not fork firefox with serious support

[–] vinhill@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I guess your point stands. But also, it's 221 mio for Mozilla as a whole. Firefox might again be a fraction of this. While e.g. the Linux foundation has a lower budget, with all the contributed work hours of volunteers / corporations, a fork of Firefox is more realistic than the 500 mio make it out to be.

[–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It is not the same software. A lot of drivers are developed externally for Linux. You can not do that with Firefox. Firefox is the main project of Mozilla

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