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Someone should fork Firefox, strip all copyrighted stuff, and severe all ties to Mozilla. Worked great for Rust, Servo, Thunderbird and several other projects d
by throw8394i4484 1y ago
Someone should fork Firefox, strip all copyrighted stuff, and severe all ties to Mozilla. Worked great for Rust, Servo, Thunderbird and several other projects dumped by Mozilla.
But honestly Firefox has way too much technical debt. Starting new browser (Ladybird, webkit) seems like much better way to go! There are several independent browsers!
- nicoburns 1y agoThere is also Servo which shares some code with Firefox (Stylo, Webrender) while rewriting significant parts.
- notpushkin 1y agoThunderbird is de jure still a Mozilla project (through a subsidiary, MZLA). And no, severing all ties wouldn’t work – not unless you find a viable financial model. Selling access for builds (Ardour-style) might work, but I’m not too sure.
- throw8394i4484 1y agoMy understanding is Thunderbird is self funded from donations. > not unless you find a viable financial model First reduce expenses by several magnitudes. There is no reason browser should need more than a github project, build QA servers, and 10 paid core developers. But you would need much better codebase for that!!! As for income, donations come to mind. You can still sell default search, just not to google. 20 years ago browser companies had income from selling their rendering engine for embedded use. They also did consulting...
- notpushkin 1y agoI mean I do agree – donations plus endowment should work pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549144