[troyvit]

Those are good points. If FF can diversify the sovereign funds its tied to then it can cancel out some of the problems.

I knew where you were coming from re: fully free software. My concern was more how its sovereign donors could influence that.

I didn't know about Naenara. Checking it out.

And yeah I agree about gov't support for journalism, but in the case of NPR (I work for one of their member stations), when large entities like X decide to label them "Government Sponsored" or whatever it indicates that there are some who see a conflict of interest. That could carry over to browsers.

[eesmith]

NPR is government funded in that lots of different governments, including university radio stations, decided to buy their news feed instead of (or in addition to) CBC and/or BBC.

If that's a conflict of issue, then having a paltry 40 sovereign funds would also be an issue.

It's also blowing smoke, as a single man, Murdoch, owns hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets, but the single owner of an entity which is too small to be considered a DMA gateway doesn't care about the details.