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Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers (blog.mozilla.org)

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As written, the proposed remedies will force smaller and independent browsers like Firefox to fundamentally reexamine their entire operating model.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

underestimate how much work Mozilla does in standards and low-level shared API’s via w3c

Oh, I didn't mean to disparage the work they do: I know it's important and extensive. I've been a Firefox user since, well, it was called Netscape. It's a critical piece of software.

I was mostly just rolling my eyes at the sheer panic they're having with the only funding source they've bothered to cultivate going away, along with the fact that a good portion of that money is spent on things that aren't the browser, and frankly, don't bring a lot of value to the table or matter in the slightest.

Dumping the Corporation baggage and making the Foundation strongly independent makes a lot more sense than begging to let Google keep paying them, which seems to be their approach, at least based on that open letter.