dino

I haven't seen the contract between google and firefox.

Maybe "how you develop the software" is a bit far-fetched, I was more thinking about decide where to put efforts into e.g.: continue developing Firefox's core mechanic of being a privacy oriented webbrowser instead of... whatever they are doing with the funding they get.

But thats exactly how they work currently? Google is the default search engine in firefox.

Feels kind of weird, if thats the case how did Linux come as far as it is today?

I don't know. Crowdfunding? How does Thunderbird keep it self afloat? Maybe better integration of the community as in more say in what will be developed depending on how much money you donate etc.

Taking funding from your biggest competitor is a weird business choice.

Always upvote a river in the void...

KDE at home "gaming" desktop, but would love to move away from it, for various bugs and non-working configurations. At work and home laptop I am using WMs, riverwm / i3.

Using linux hardware, pretty much one of the requirements for my job, otherwise I look elsewhere. For RDP the only downside being wayland not working with it, so you have to stay with X11.