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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't have zero resources. It has at least 1.2 million dollars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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.