firefox is not that clear, they get funding by google for putting google as default search engine thus helping google. We have a problem with FOSS funding
While thatâs true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.
It is the only way they can get as much funding so I would say that itâs more than in the clear, firefox is the only escape from googleâs monopoly on web (chrominum)
I agree on that. Iâm looking into writting about FOSS funding with examples and proposing solutions for this issue. Just that takes a long time and a meme is easier.
Hey, I maintain a highly popular (if niche) FOSS library. Where the fuck is my big tech paycheck where they bribe me into integrating with their product?
/s Silly take IMO, relies on cherry-picking popular FOSS projects where you can see "the influence" of big tech, AND then No True Scotsman your way into saying that they're not allowed to participate in the development/influence of FOSS because... checks notes they're the ones funding the project/putting money in front of otherwise unpaid volunteers?
If you end up coming up with a better scheme for things that has the actual practical effect of compensating devs appropriately (yes, that means at current market rates or better) for their work, then please let us know so we can switch to doing that immediately. I will literally do anything you suggest if it would achieve that end.
Is it morally wrong to choose inaction, to not involve ourselves in a no-win scenario? By simply being present, are we already involved? Will God someday judge us for these most pivotal moments?
nah. âwhat currently exists must necessarily existâ. it adds the âmustâ, as in, âthe world could not be otherwise.â that statement alone is not contained in âwhat currently existsâ so adding the âmustâ thus develops the statement further rather than just redoubling it.
The opposing force is the idea that whatever exists is the result of luck, bad judgement, random choices or ill intent, rather than inherent or inevitable consequence.
Itâs not linear. History is one of those machines with the balls that fall down randomly and form a bell curve.
For example, the seeming contradiction between the values good people claim to pursue in life and the contradictions to those theyâre willing to tollerate.
Thatâs not a product of the modern deceptions of a globalised economy as some have claimed, itâs a product of the way humans are not capable of including the whole world in sense of whatâs real
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