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by bjord 474 days ago
if that were truly (sustainably) possible, I'd support it, but imo that'd just be signing ff's death warrant

side note, thunderbird is already independent and democratically-managed by the community (as of a few years ago). the way I understand it is that they effectively just use mozilla's resources for legal, logistical stuff
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BSDobelix 474 days ago
>if that were truly (sustainably) possible, I'd support it, but imo that'd just be signing ff's death warrant

I really don't think so, have a look at the ladybird browser:

https://ladybird.org/#sponsors

Or even Servo:

https://servo.org/

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chownie 474 days ago
Neither of these represent the cost and support footprint to maintain and develop a fully featured browser because as it stands neither of them are fully featured, complete browsers.
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BSDobelix 474 days ago
>cost and support footprint to maintain and develop a fully featured browser

True because the real cost to support a "a fully featured browser" is at least a 1/4 billion dollars....because OpenSource needs to make money, not for the Dev's but the MBA's ;)

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