OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.
  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    10 hours ago

    They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.

      • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        You can’t finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn’t like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they’re mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.

        I’d really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.

        I don’t think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.