It sounds like you now have no issue with Gecko work being sponsored by Google. I was more interested in what you were saying. This is a fair question and am open to discussion. Google on the other hand invented many modern web standards. You can't do that with closed source software - and even if we are talking incentives, it is definitely the case that even when incentives are aligned, your counter-parties can work against you.Īpple has been a strong privacy advocate for the web and WebKit innovated on many privacy related features like blocking 3rd party cookies etc. On the other hand, Firefox is open source (unlike Orion), so people who prefer a browser built on Firefox but don't like certain things about it can modify it to fit their needs. In your case, users need to fund you, so your product may be more expensive than the cost that they are willing to bear. ![]() ![]() But so is Firefox/Gecko free-riding many other open source projects. ![]() WebKit is open source and yes we are getting it 'for free'. I was talking about funding as I believe funding is what defines incentives.
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