[JoshTriplett]

Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense, especially if that foundation was then immediately funded by a variety of companies rather than just one big advertising company.

The obvious test for whether the browser is actually independent: what is the response to "let's add an ad-blocker by default".

[behnamoh]

> Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense,...

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[Wytwwww]

There would be few incentives to try and pull off something like that if nobody had any faith in the product every becoming extremely profitable though.

[PittleyDunkin]

Isn't openapi pro-profit? Or at least I thought it was.

[whiplash451]

This is wishful thinking. Non-profits that don’t turn into for-profit turn into a shitshow of incompetence instead.

[Vilian]

You all need to learn about employer owned companies, in Brasil it's called cooperativas not sure in english, and that would fix that

[niutech]

Not necessarily, see The Linux Foundation Europe competently maintains Servo.

[whiplash451]

My comment could rub tech people in the wrong way (for a good reason).

I meant incompetence at the company governance level, not technical.

There's massive technical competence in non-profits.

This brilliance is just wasted by leaders who sacrifice business acumen over the mission.