"No, we are absolutely not prepared to [fork Firefox]"

Context / previous discussion of Firefox's updated terms of use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909

For others who saw this with no context and don't want to read the thread, this is a response from the librewolf team regarding requests made in response to changes to Fireox's terms of service[0], from those who are worried that Mozilla/FF will use this as the first step to selling out.

[0]https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/fi...

Because the scope keeps growing as well. People have been pushing desktop apps to the browser for years.

I wish the browser was limited to showing websites, and that technology for desktop apps evolved. But that's not how it goes for some reason. Some kind of imperialism in platforms? Systemd wants to take it all, browsers want to take it all, ...

It's simple - interfere with the competition, useless engineer job security, performative "working" , and bad incentives all around. They're on a gravy train and don't want the ad revenue to ever stop. A truly independent browser threatens that entire ecosystem, and that in turn results in collusion and patterns of behavior intended to make things nearly impossible to keep up with, even though the actually functional bits that consumers give a shit about haven't really changed all that much in the last decade. What Microsoft did with IE, all the major browser developers are doing now to reinforce their anti-competitive collective behavior and each can seek as much rent as possible from their respective walled gardens.