101@feddit.org to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoMozilla is a sinking ship.feddit.orgimagemessage-square214fedilinkarrow-up1981file-text
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minus-squareGoodie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·3 months agoWe need a better funding model for open source. Praying that people will donate enough to support your browser isn’t exactly great and really doesn’t work for most open-source projects. Unless they are doing something new in that space, it’ll just he smooching up to big donors in back rooms. At least Firefox is open about their deal with Google.
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 months agoI’ve always said “give everyone a software voucher they can spend on whatever software developer and the government assigns grants based on vouchers”
We need a better funding model for open source.
Praying that people will donate enough to support your browser isn’t exactly great and really doesn’t work for most open-source projects.
Unless they are doing something new in that space, it’ll just he smooching up to big donors in back rooms.
At least Firefox is open about their deal with Google.
I’ve always said “give everyone a software voucher they can spend on whatever software developer and the government assigns grants based on vouchers”