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

submitted 2 months ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Open source aint going anywheres, no worries here

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Browser codebase is really complex and requires dedicated dev effort.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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...