[surgical_fire]

> Without that deal, there wouldn’t be a Firefox. If/when it’s gone, there’s no one capable/willing to fund Mozilla to that amount.

There's some irony when I read that while my laptop is running Linux Mint, which in my perception is much superior in many ways to the competition.

I agree that Free software needs sponsorship, especially when it is such a fundamental part of interacting with a computer (which a web browser certainly is).

I am not certain that this sponsorship coming from a company that wants to undermine it is a good thing.

[Volundr]

> There's some irony when I read that while my laptop is running Linux Mint, which in my perception is much superior in many ways to the competition.

I think building a browser is quite a bit more complicated than building a Linux distro. More akin to building an OS to compete with the big 3.