if the majority of users were as ready to pull out their wallets to support the free software they use as they are to be ethically purist about the same software, open source would undoubtedly have far fewer funding problems.
I want the perfect browser? Maybe I can start by donating €1 a month to the one I'm using and getting involved in its community to contribute before running from fork to fork at the slightest project failure.
#firefox
Jérémy Garniaux /
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2025-03-04 05:55:35
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2025-03-04 05:55:35Event JSON
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