Uh huh... So i'll be sticking with firefox for the foreseeable future, except on my iphone where I cede to orion for now. Edit This is more glib than i'd like. I just get all sorts of nasty vibes...
Uh huh...
So i'll be sticking with firefox for the foreseeable future, except on my iphone where I cede to orion for now.
Edit
This is more glib than i'd like. I just get all sorts of nasty vibes from this. "Supporters for Chromium based browsers"....as if you need a movement for that? It's the defacto standard to the point that almost all development for everything else is seen as a niche skill.
Maybe there's good intent behind all this, but dear god does it come off as some sort of dystopian "Support for the Party/Great leader!" spiel. I hate that a very likely end game for google is choking the browser market enough they can start being more hostile to ad blockers and better integrating them.
They aren't the de facto standard for default web browser on Linux distros as far as I'm aware, I figure the point of the fund is to pay distros to ship with a Chromium flavor.
They aren't the de facto standard for default web browser on Linux distros as far as I'm aware, I figure the point of the fund is to pay distros to ship with a Chromium flavor.
Looks to me like an industry association, not a movement. Apparently Facebook, Microsoft, and Opera want to put some money into maintaining their common code base, and they want a neutral...
Looks to me like an industry association, not a movement. Apparently Facebook, Microsoft, and Opera want to put some money into maintaining their common code base, and they want a neutral organization to do it.
For browser users and web developers, there’s nothing to see here. But maybe things change a bit for the browser developers working at those companies?
Huh? Chromium is not some community project contributing to the societal greater good, it's an open source project stewarded by a monopolist who uses it as a tool to enforce their supremacy over...
Huh? Chromium is not some community project contributing to the societal greater good, it's an open source project stewarded by a monopolist who uses it as a tool to enforce their supremacy over web standards and the greater web ecosystem.
This just seems like an invitation for other companies or individuals to contribute free labor in the interest of continuing that monopoly. No thanks.
Fantastic, since Google/Chromium Project have been so welcoming of collaboration with the Linux Foundation and seeking non-Alphabet funding then they're implicitly welcoming a forced spin-off of...
Fantastic, since Google/Chromium Project have been so welcoming of collaboration with the Linux Foundation and seeking non-Alphabet funding then they're implicitly welcoming a forced spin-off of Chrome from Alphabet as part of their loss in the antitrust ruling.
Now there's no ambiguity of how the project will continue and thrive after being kicked out of Google's clutches!
Uh huh...
So i'll be sticking with firefox for the foreseeable future, except on my iphone where I cede to orion for now.
Edit
This is more glib than i'd like. I just get all sorts of nasty vibes from this. "Supporters for Chromium based browsers"....as if you need a movement for that? It's the defacto standard to the point that almost all development for everything else is seen as a niche skill.
Maybe there's good intent behind all this, but dear god does it come off as some sort of dystopian "Support for the Party/Great leader!" spiel. I hate that a very likely end game for google is choking the browser market enough they can start being more hostile to ad blockers and better integrating them.
You could argue they have already started that with the forced move to V3. Breaking up the Google monopoly definitely should happen.
They aren't the de facto standard for default web browser on Linux distros as far as I'm aware, I figure the point of the fund is to pay distros to ship with a Chromium flavor.
Looks to me like an industry association, not a movement. Apparently Facebook, Microsoft, and Opera want to put some money into maintaining their common code base, and they want a neutral organization to do it.
For browser users and web developers, there’s nothing to see here. But maybe things change a bit for the browser developers working at those companies?
(Why does Facebook care? Maybe it’s because they have a Chromium-based web view?)
Huh? Chromium is not some community project contributing to the societal greater good, it's an open source project stewarded by a monopolist who uses it as a tool to enforce their supremacy over web standards and the greater web ecosystem.
This just seems like an invitation for other companies or individuals to contribute free labor in the interest of continuing that monopoly. No thanks.
Why do you assume "free labor" when it says "fund" right there?
Presumably that money will be spent in no small part on chromium-related labor.
.... yes?
Isn't that the point of paying people to do a thing? That they do the thing?
Fantastic, since Google/Chromium Project have been so welcoming of collaboration with the Linux Foundation and seeking non-Alphabet funding then they're implicitly welcoming a forced spin-off of Chrome from Alphabet as part of their loss in the antitrust ruling.
Now there's no ambiguity of how the project will continue and thrive after being kicked out of Google's clutches!
Thanks, I hate it.