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It's not about "can't afford it", it's solely about "doesn't fit their business model". This is in great, big letters on Mozilla's home page: " We Are Buildin
by devnul3 15y ago
It's not about "can't afford it", it's solely about "doesn't fit their business model".
This is in great, big letters on Mozilla's home page:
"
We Are Building a Better Internet
And we’re dedicated to keeping it free, open and accessible to all.
"
- cgranade 15y agoNot to mention that if they did pay for the license, I'm not sure that it would propagate down to forking projects. If you can't fork Firefox, that significantly impedes the utility of its open-source development model.
- lucian1900 15y agoVery, very good point. Not everyone uses official Firefox binaries. What should happen instead, MPEG-LA should give a perpetual license to all non-profit or open source developers of anything whatsoever.
- AshleysBrain 15y agoChromium is open source and Chrome supports AAC. What do they do? Can Firefox do that too?