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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 19:51:06 JST feld
   Can anyone name a single project as large as Firefox that is successfully community funded?
   
   RT: https://alpaca.gold/users/Jeremiah/statuses/113245907464275637
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     vascorsd (vascorsd@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 21:02:57 JST vascorsd

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     @feld yeah, it's hard, people have no idea how much money it's need to keep a team of people working full time in such a thing. I always laugh when I read they say "I'll just use fork X" as if that's not just a reskin and some changes to some settings with no real developers working full time on a browser.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 21:02:57 JST feld

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     • vascorsd
     @vascorsd Ops people, security people, QA, i18n, the engine devs, the GUI devs, representation and participation in the standards bodies...
     
     Probably going to need to drop support for some OSes and arches...
     
     Linux and Postgres are pretty huge themselves but there's a business case for paying devs to work on it full time, so the most active contributors are fully funded.
     
     Which company NEEDS Firefox and could fund it? None, really. Your business is not going to have a competitive edge by supporting Firefox...
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 10:08:03 JST feld

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     • alcinnz
     @alcinnz Linux kernel devs have full time jobs doing this work paid by their corporate employers just like Postgres.
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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 10:08:04 JST alcinnz

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     @feld What's Linux's (the kernel) funding?

     I'm not sure anything else remotely compares! At least unless you start counting software suites as opposed to individually-run projects...