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848 points thefilmore | 4 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.477s | source
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reddalo ◴[13 May 25 05:56 UTC] No.43969945[source]▶
Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2].

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

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1. gsich ◴[13 May 25 06:03 UTC] No.43969978[source]▶
Probably only for visibility. Or MS is in the process of sponsoring them.
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3. aucisson_masque ◴[13 May 25 06:11 UTC] No.43970021[source]▶
> MS is in the process of sponsoring them.

Think you might be on something, with the incoming end of Google cash flow, Firefox may be in discussion with bing and that could be part of the agreement, use Microsoft server.

4. pndy ◴[13 May 25 06:55 UTC] No.43970243[source]▶
Considering image backlash they had over last year with: acquiring ad tech company created by former meta people, which in turn lead to introducing so-called "privacy preserving attribution" feature for ads tracking, changing ToS terms regarding data collection, firing CPO who was diagnosed with cancer. Then I do believe these all little changes are PR stunts with an attempt to regain trust of users who strongly criticised Mozilla in last year and earlier.

They should restructure instead, hire people who actually want to work on software and not use corporation and foundation around it as platform for their... peculiar "endeavours". But I doubt that's gonna happen - flow of Google cash and from all those naive people who think supporting Mozilla directly contributes to Firefox is too good it seems. But then it's understandable they do this - money from Google tap can get twisted.