
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 2:15 PM Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: for the past week or so, there has been an extensive and detailed discussion
on the Debian list about Firefox and its problems.
Total tangent: Firefox isn't alone. Numerous projects are running into sustainability and scaling issues as their founders leave or burn out, and the original energy needs to be replaced by other incentives such as income. The karmic decline of both Red Hat and Canonical have been on full display. (When Oracle tries to come across as one of the good guys something is really going weird.) At the last GTALUG meeting we touched on the Godot engine getting needlessly political leading to an (IMO equally needless) fork. Next month will address the tribulations between Wordpress founders and "exploiters" and more needless forking. These days it seems that political and financial issues about open source projects are overwhelming the technical ones. - Evan