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[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

What I meant was that the could just start doing what they were already doing with the fork already having the same code under the hood. Kind of like how LibreOffice happened after the holders of OpenOffice pulled their shit. Obviously Mozilla is more than just FF. They just keep it from being directly donated to, which is at least some money they just seem to not want. I also know that pure donation-based funding is nowhere near what they lose Google's money. But it is very frustrating that basically all of their other services have options to donate or sub to them directly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Kind of like how LibreOffice happened after the holders of OpenOffice pulled their shit

libreoffice has the document foundation behind it, which is basically a continuation of the oo.o team after oracle bought sun: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/

mozilla is already an independent foundation. i don't think the situations are comparable at all