@JessTheUnstill If your goal is to "do something about" it, wouldn't the first step be to find out more about the people and org structures involved? Learning about the area at hand, and learning about the general ecosystems and people involved (including both the gecko and the chromium ecosystems) would be step 0 in any solution.

@JessTheUnstill i have the same feelings! a fork being the solution to this problem is very ingrained in the culture but at the scale of browser development it all feels impossible. even these soft forks that just tweak one feature seem to have trouble keeping up with upstream. on the flipside it doesn't help us that the ladybird browser project is fascist aligned, not that i think they have much chance of reaching parity with ff/chrome anyways

@daniel_bohrer OpenOffice was a Sun based product. See my bit listing exceptions to the rule almost entirely based on Sun products?

@daniel_bohrer @JessTheUnstill

The situation has to be understood as a forking of resources, not of users. Users that contribute nothing (money, time, etc) don't really matter at all (which is it's own radioactive problem I'm going to put over *here*)

If the fork contains most of the resources, or a better economic situation then it can supplant the original. Inkscape's 5 hobbiests replaced Sodipodi's 1. But replacing $100m with 5 part timers isn't really forking the resources. Just sporking.