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Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

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858 points colesantiago | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source
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colesantiago ◴[02 Sep 25 20:31 UTC] No.45108621[source]▶
What does this mean for Mozilla?

Where would Mozilla get their 80% of revenue from if Google now has to probably sever and end their search deal for Firefox? [0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-r...

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solardev ◴[02 Sep 25 21:09 UTC] No.45109095[source]▶
Ideally Mozilla would go bankrupt and a better-managed org could fork Firefox and pick up from there.
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1. majewsky ◴[02 Sep 25 21:34 UTC] No.45109370[source]▶
If forking Firefox was a viable route, would someone not already have done it?
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2. solardev ◴[02 Sep 25 21:46 UTC] No.45109522[source]▶
There's not really a strong incentive to while Mozilla is still around (and despite that, there are still a few forks... Waterfox, for example). I think it would take a collapse of Mozilla, Oracle-style, to really spur that.

(edit: Oracle didn't collapse, I mean what happened to OpenOffice.org.)