The implication of GP was that the Mozilla foundation couldn’t survive without the financial support of google. If that’s true, they’re a vassal of google because google can now effectively wield its financial dominance to veto any change they don’t like. For example, support our new Secure Enclave or we’ll pull financial support and crush your support on websites at the same time.
Really this is already an incredibly bad look in the sense of Firefox kinda being “controlled opposition” to the chrome dominance of the web, a dummy competitor literally funded by google to avoid accusations of monopoly. See, there’s Firefox! And safari, who we just levered out of the market by getting the EU to force sideloading.
Really this is already an incredibly bad look in the sense of Firefox kinda being “controlled opposition” to the chrome dominance of the web, a dummy competitor literally funded by google to avoid accusations of monopoly. See, there’s Firefox! And safari, who we just levered out of the market by getting the EU to force sideloading.