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minus-square NuXCOM_90Percent ( @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoWhile mozilla/firefox is indeed a giant mess of legacy code: Why would a company instead support a hobbyist project with almost zero resources? At that point we are in the mythical “What if the small business of the world united and made their own product” territory
minus-square Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-23 months agoIt doesn’t have zero resources. It has at least 1.2 million dollars
minus-square NuXCOM_90Percent ( @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ) linkfedilinkEnglish5•3 months agoIt is not exclusively Firefox but Mozilla corp has 750 staff and 593 million in revenue according to Wikipedia. One million is maybe ten part time developers for a year.
While mozilla/firefox is indeed a giant mess of legacy code: Why would a company instead support a hobbyist project with almost zero resources?
At that point we are in the mythical “What if the small business of the world united and made their own product” territory
It doesn’t have zero resources. It has at least 1.2 million dollars
It is not exclusively Firefox but Mozilla corp has 750 staff and 593 million in revenue according to Wikipedia.
One million is maybe ten part time developers for a year.