• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Fork, blah, blah, blah.

    When one of these forks doesn’t depend on Mozilla to do all the heavy lifting of security updates and compatibility fixes, then maybe we can talk seriously about forks. But no fork does fuck-all towards the hard part of maintaining a web browser engine. So forks mean nothing.

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        28 days ago

        Well, if users don’t the source of the actual work, then none of the forks survive. I don’t know what people think are going to happen.

        Shitting on Mozilla seems to be a competitor sport around here sometimes, and it’s fucking self-defeating. In 5 years, there will only be the Chromium engine, and then Google will shut down the opensource side like they pretty much did with Android. And then we’re truly fucked.