Google's search deal with Mozilla is such a sizeable portion of its overall income that without it, Firefox would struggle to compete - or even survive,
  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh look we’re back to the “open source software can’t survive on its own without gobs of money and million-dollar CEOs wah wah wah” again.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wtf you on about?

      The grand majority of all costs for Firefox are in engineering salaries. And there is no million dollar CEO relating to the nonprofit’s expenses, that CEO is paid for from funds from the for profit organization.

      Browsers are CRAZY expensive to build and maintain. And teams of engineers are crazy expensive.