>They're developing 40 million lines of code, and a lot of the things you're comparing it to actually aren't as comparably large or cutthroat. To get pedantic

>They're developing 40 million lines of code, and a lot of the things you're comparing it to actually aren't as comparably large or cutthroat. To get pedantic about it, they aren't developing that much code, they are maintaining that much code. Not that I think LOC is the best metric but here are the figures for 2 of the project I brought up. Linux kernel is ~40M LOC FreeBSD kernel 7.8~9M LOC I would argue that the OS's that run the internet are much more cutthroat than a browser, not just in terms of attack risk but in business terms as well. >Microsoft aggressively tried to destroy Linux in the late 1990s and 2000s. This era included the internal "Halloween Documents" mapping out strategies to fight open source, former CEO Steve Ballmer calling Linux "a cancer," and Microsoft covertly funding SCO Group's proxy lawsuits against Linux users. The larger your codebase is, the greater the attack surface. One of the arguments about the way that Firefox is progressing is that they keep adding more stuff into the codebase. If it's getting too complex, maybe they shouldn't be adding those features... >Another delusional argument. Wikipedia brings in a fraction of what Mozilla gets, and with orders of magnitude more users. Mozilla received 16.9 million from contributions in 2024. Wikipedia took in ~170 million in the same time period. Not sure where you got that Mozilla was bringing in more than Wikipedia through donations? In going through the Mozilla Financials, I don't see where they have a huge endowment set aside, 73% of their revenue is royalties. I did however see that they spent 31 million to buy Acronym(an ad company) and 21 million to buy Fakespot. So that's neat. https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Fdn%202024%20-%20AuditedFinancials.pdf https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Fdn%202024%20-%20A...