How does Mozilla get money apart from the Google search deal? Are there no other search engines willing to pay to be the (even country specific) default? Also if Google sell Chrome wouldn't that mean they'd be able to keep the deal? In a sense they are no longer the monopoly?
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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On the second question: no one bids as high as Google, simple as that. Others may emerge, but no one's gonna pay that much, and with Google out of the race, the bids can get even lower.
Websites already blacklist firefox and is sickening
Jeez why are mozilla execs the dumbest people in the fucking room! Next they will say the earth is a spheroid.
I fail to see how this is new news, we have known this for years now, no?
I looked at their finances --which anyone can do-- and even if Google were to remove their funding tomorrow, Mozilla still has about 2-3 years of reserve capital they can burn through. Not optimal but it is not like they will disappear in a year.
Clearly, not a position they would want to be in, but they are not disappearing overnight.
Open source aint going anywheres, no worries here
Open-source projects like this require dozents of full-time developers. It will be dead without a company like Mozilla running it. Imagine the Linux kernel with only hobbyist developers...
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