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> Over 80% of contributions to Chromium come from Google, about 77% of contributions in WebKit come from Apple, and at Mozilla Central - about 82% of commits are from Mozillans.

I hadn't seen this breakdown before. Curious if this data is easily available or regularly reported on a la Linux kernel contributions?

> Or perhaps legislation hits Google’s default search deal and seriously disrupts things in the ecosystem. That’s pretty much all of the actual funding for Mozilla. Uh oh. Interestingly too though, Apple’s entire earnings would suddenly dip by something like 15-20%

I've always thought the threat to Mozilla from Google going poof has been a bit overstated: others would pay for the valuable real estate, just less. The world would move on. That Apple's huge earnings would dip by a large amount is new to me: are Google payments to Apple really 15-20% of Apple's entire earnings? (I guess I could look this up, so I'll also wonder whether anyone has done a revenue flow graph among various players?)

There's no link for "Open Prioritization" in the post nor in the linked MathML post, so here it is to save others a search https://www.igalia.com/open-prioritization/

Cool post, I'm generally impressed by Igalia.

> 10 companies agreeing to invest $10k apiece to advance and maintain some area of shared interest is every bit as useful as 1 agreeing to invest $100k generally.

I wonder if the author is familiar with Ronald Coase’s work...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem

Posted after seeing "We need a Chromium Foundation[1].

A good & worthwhile act of imagineering ways forward, a trying to understand how humanity can be a good steward to something core to us.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425284