$500MM for Mozilla is, from my perspective, in the same league as a company making tens of billions with a much more diverse portfolio. $500MM is a ton of money, not "scrappy" in any sense.
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"Troll the Titans" is a ridiculous slogan for a company with $500MM a year in annual revenue.
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It's also definitely enough. There is no question.
I don't think it's because it costs half a billion dollars a year to implement the web. Half a billion dollars is a lot of money. There's a lot of space between "it's cheap" and "you need half a billion dollars"
I don't understand the forking restriction. Webkit was a fork of Konquerer, Blink was a fork of Webkit. UC was a fork of Webkit. It's just not a requirement to not fork. The requirement is maintaining competitive value after you fork, which is tricky and not cheap.
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But it doesn't require $500MM a year.
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Replying to @wycats @AsaDotzler @the_real_jeffg @fabricedesre @pascalchevrel
Though I think it's not just the cost of building an implementation of the Web, but also the cost of building products that make that implementation relevant. An implementation of the Web can't help users without widely used products built with a similar set of values.

Apr 1, 2018 · 12:26 AM UTC

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