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minus-squaresuburban_hillbilly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·18 hours agoI would guess Mozilla is making plans for what happens when Chrome is sold. Now that Firefox has proven to be an inadequate antitrust shield for Chrome, there is no longer any reason for Google to continue funding them.
minus-squarestinky@redlemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agohow does moving to github help them if chrome is sold?
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·17 hours agoI’m not the OP, but it’s probably easier to get (free) community contributions on Github than on any other spot. Or it’s to make it easier to fork, in case Mozilla goes out of business.
minus-squareesa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoIt’s also likely a bit of cost-benefit analysis for self-hosting vs using a managed service. Codeberg would be more in line with Mozilla’s ideals IMO, but GitHub is a pragmatic choice anyway.
But why?
I would guess Mozilla is making plans for what happens when Chrome is sold. Now that Firefox has proven to be an inadequate antitrust shield for Chrome, there is no longer any reason for Google to continue funding them.
how does moving to github help them if chrome is sold?
I’m not the OP, but it’s probably easier to get (free) community contributions on Github than on any other spot.
Or it’s to make it easier to fork, in case Mozilla goes out of business.
It’s also likely a bit of cost-benefit analysis for self-hosting vs using a managed service.
Codeberg would be more in line with Mozilla’s ideals IMO, but GitHub is a pragmatic choice anyway.