Ah thanks, I was about to call Peter.
Ah thanks, I was about to call Peter.
As if installing and using something else means you can’t have Chrome lying around for that one stupid website.
Yes, and we will drop Mozilla when it drops uBlock as well. We will all get behind whatever open-source browser stops ads, and it will very quickly become the most widely used browser. Why? Because everybody despises fucking ads and you can’t curb-stomp them into liking ads, that’s why.
Google can spend all the money it likes trying to piss on users and tell them it’s raining but at the end of the day, a new king will be crowned and if it isn’t Chrome and it isn’t Firefox, then it will be something else.
And no, FOSS doesn’t need money behind it. FOSS needs a dedicated community behind it. Assertions to the contrary are FUD constantly being seeded by Google, Microsoft and their ilk to destroy competition. This is an existential necessity for Google, you can bet they are doing everything in their power to maintain the status quo.
I understand that Mother Jones is not an ecumenical council, but the Jezebel referenced in the Bible was not a prostitute. She was considered “wicked” for several other offenses.
Mozilla doesn’t need 80% of its revenue to do a good job of maintaining a browser codebase. So it’s a good thing that that funding could disappear, Mozilla could fold like a lawn chair and the next open-source fork that everyone got behind would pick right up and probably do a better job at the core task than Mozilla is.
This idea that open-source software requires more than a dedicated contributing community is (one of many) memes created by the likes of Google and Microsoft in order to snuff out FOSS competition.
I’m convinced that 80% of all these threads and the responses within them are astroturfing by Google to cause everyone to despair that Mozilla is no better than Google and that there will never be anything that could be developed to compete with Google if Mozilla went under.
There’s just too goddamn many of them and they’re all filled with the same negative comments. It’s just like the “no way bro, I love paying for YouTube why you gotta have everything for free bro?” bullshit from a few months ago.
No sense worrying about it then. I know I don’t.
I believe there is a way. Nanotechnology helped along by artificial intelligence could conceivably bring material abundance to everyone. This would be a world dramatically reshaped. Humanity might not even qualify as the same species anymore.
Some people actually think that such a future is an inevitability; that it can’t be stopped. Short of everybody dying in a fire of course.
I watch too much MST3K. I couldn’t understand why having a warm backside was the opposite of Kool-Aid.
That sounds like communism, Florida won’t have any of that. The glorious free market will surely fix all things.
this whole thing took me a while to process, ngl
How can $15 million be considered a lot of money in a month when Diablo 4 has made a billion dollars in just over a year? I mean, that’s a factor of 10.
I could also ask how it could be possible that Diablo could make a billion dollars despite pretty much everyone saying it sucks? And then what might the logic be in subsequently firing all the people who made it?
But I digress.
The delicious irony is that they now get to live in the world they helped create.
I’ve literally never seen any of these except the top symbol.
You forgot to escape.
For anyone interested in some light fiction on the subject, may I direct you to On the Beach by Neville Shute.
He’s a dream divine and we make love together 🎶
It was shocking to me that someone who was so good… so fantastic at projecting a certain image in print was such a colossal failure at doing the same thing in real life. You shoulda stayed behind the web browser, my man.