Firefox was better than Mozilla.
Nay. Only Firefox 0.9 was better than Mozilla. Later on, bloatware won.
It's definitely worth noting that, Epiphany & Firefox popped up so quickly because they built on Mozilla's rendering, etc.
Yes, it's easier to add bloatware on a solid open-sourced base...
Things get pushed in the kernel, Xorg, etc. for a good reason, even if we fail to see it.
Hopefully, there is Someone up there who sees it. Then He will come for a second time to bring salvation to us. Hopefully, there is no HAL, no UDEV, no PulseAudio in either heaven or hell.
Well, you just said a few lines up that enough maintainers are proven to keep up even 3x this size. Not to mention the (PLD, I think) examples someone else brought in the thread.
I can't tell of PLD, as I have never used it. Next time someone will tell of Arch etc. etc. Not the right approach IMHO.
Cheers, R-C
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