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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by heyitsanewacco on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:49PM (#30337288)
The unsaid part is that Google keeps Firefox alive so that they are not hit by anti-trust over in-browser search. That's why FF will always trail Chrome, its the designated loser. If it weren't for anti-trust, Google would have bought out Mozilla years ago.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by selfhoster11 on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:29PM (#30339283)
You can't buy out an open source project. If Google bought it out and started messing with it, there would be an immediate outcry and Firefox would end up with the community fork winning out, just like it happened with MySQL and OpenOffice.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by bendhoefs on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:43PM (#30342502)
A browser would not do well as a volunteer driven open-source project. It is simply too big and too complex to be able to get by without full-time paid developers.
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