• Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Whats confusing about it? People took something that was going bad and made it good again. Thats the benefit of open source. Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      49 minutes ago

      Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue

      Theoretically yes, practically no. Maintaining a secure modern web engine that’s up to date with - and a part of - setting web standards is something that costs tens of millions per year. Sometimes this even spills into the hundreds of millions.

      Random fork projects don’t have the resources to do that.