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Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Open source aint going anywheres, no worries here

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The code is one thing. 300 skilled developers is another. Most of those could be full-time too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Fire the highest paid exec first and I bet you there's at least 30 devs paid for right there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Browser codebase is really complex and requires dedicated dev effort.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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...