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[โ€“] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You say that as if we're lying. Mozilla's entire revenue is from the search deal. If it goes away, you can kiss the entire company goodbye. Not saying that OSS is inherently unable to survive or anything like that.

[โ€“] Supervisor194@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago

Then die. Open source software wasn't created to generate revenue.