EU should heavily subsidize Mozilla, so that this is not necessary.
They are focusing on things that are nothing to do with their core product, and have been acting so for a long time.
Mozilla is deeply unhealthy, and has been slowly collapsing for more than a decade at this point. I believe that the significant majority of its staff are doing things of no or negative value to Firefox.
I suspect that ten developers not beholden to Mozilla but with a mandate to make a good browser would be better custodians of Firefox. If you raised the budget to forty, I’m all but certain of it.
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