![]() In any case, I still think it would be a waste of taxpayer money for the EU to pick winners (ie award the project to someone). The point I wanted to make is that the EU should not fork Firefox, but rather try to get their favourite contributions upstreamed, if possible. In any case, I already mentioned in my comment that the EU can pay someone other than Mozilla. Mozilla can already hire from anywhere, too, can't they? > Plus, they can get a lot more software talent for their Euro in the EU (esp. But not from a macroeconomic economic point of view, or just getting bang-for-your-buck. ![]() That's, alas, true from a political point of view. > Also, Mozilla is an American company the EU would naturally want to give money to an EU company that hires EU citizens to do such high-value, high-paid work, not send that money to the US. Or perhaps they just have different priorities, and the EU can specifically pay them to do some work on EU priorities? > The reason for forking rather than throwing money at Mozilla is that Mozilla doesn't seem to be doing a great job of managing themselves. (Some people even go so far as claiming that outsourced government projects are worse than in-house ones.) ![]() I skimmed over the issue here: my more precise point is that government entities generally aren't good at building things when they outsource the actual building, either. I wouldn't expect EU government employees to work directly on FF, but rather for it to be contracted out to some EU company or companies. ![]() Government entities aren't any good at building almost anything, but that's why they contract work out to private companies. ![]()
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