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Re:Mozilla's Original Sin by shadowgovt on Saturday June 22, 2024 @10:34PM (#40764263)
It's a fun fantasy, but the simple fact is that the standards committees are a power game and if Mozilla doesn't operate successfully as a corporation they have no power.

And you don't make money selling a browser.

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Re:Mozilla's Original Sin by ricktdotorg on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:15AM (#40764742)
but doesn't Mozilla have more than a billion dollars in the bank (and/or investments) for doing precisely that?

they "sold" their browser, just not to end-users. they sold it to google via "royalties" for google to use as a shield against anti-trust.

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