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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by selfhoster11 on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:49PM (#30340321)
Was an endowment needed for LibreOffice and Maria DB? I don't actually know how it happened with those two, but they both seemed to be more or less grassroots forks when people realised that Oracle won't ever be a good custodian. Perhaps a Firefox fork here could emerge in a similar way.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by rincebrain on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:17AM (#30343390)
I don't know about LibreOffice, but my recollection was that MariaDB was initially less a reaction to Oracle actually having been bad for MySQL and more a fear that Oracle would potentially {be bad, close the product, ...}
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