[freediver]

> maintaining a browser is incredibly difficult and expensive. It would be the death blow to their market share, which would destroy Gecko as a viable browser engine

Assuming 100 people needed for Gecko, and $150k/year annual, world-wide, average developer expense, we come to $15M/year. Mozilla already has about ~$50M/year non-Google revenue from its products (coming from "true" users/customers).

[dralley]

150k / person doesn't account for benefits or office expenses. And they have closer to 750 employees.

[freediver]

It does if your team is world-wide.

Does Gecko really need more than 100 people?

[kaba0]

We are talking about a fking browser! Even microsoft dropped the ball on that one, it’s that complex of a problem!

[dralley]

Firefox is 20 million lines of code. What do you think?

[thayne]

How many of those 750 are actually developers?

[freediver]

Firefox != Gecko and I maintain a 200,000 lines of code product alone no problem, so I think possible.