Andreessen had fuck-all to do with Firefox. He had worked on Netscape Navigator (which changed names several times over the years and is now known as SeaMonkey), but he had left Mozilla years before Firefox, which was a from-scratch rewrite, became a thing.

In that regard – writing shit code that was best thrown out – him and Eich (the fucker who inflicted Javascript on the world) are quite similar.

Finally somebody other than me says it!

If the co-op is purely doing contract work and the contract ends, how are they able to continue to pay workers on the bench?

I think this is the buried lede. How much is income reduced to tech workers vs traditional employers? Without strong social safety nets in the country a co-op with a much lower salary may not be a viable option because unemployment would leave the former workers without resources to live on.

I feel like the answers to these would be related. One answer could be that the organization maintains a large fund to act as a buffer to maintain salaries between contracts instead of operating “paycheck-to-paycheck.” An even simpler answer could be that the co-op chooses to take on a large number of small contracts instead of a small number of large ones, such that the revenue is relatively consistent to begin with.

They also flow from corruption (regulatory capture/failure to enforce anti-trust and other consumer-protection law). It’s hard to say whether that is itself a cause or result of wealth inequality, though.

It’s a version control system, not social media!

I get that you’re explaining it, not endorsing it, and so this criticism isn’t directed at you, but the notion that people would pick Github over Gitlab or Codeburg because of the bandwagon effect is just dumb and weird.

if that happens, people should migrate

Or better yet, they should just go ahead and do so right now. What’s the point of picking Github over the other better alternatives anyway?

They have a fiduciary duty to be as shitty as humanly possible.

They don’t – that’s a cargo-cult misunderstanding of Dodge v. Ford Motor Co – but it’s so widely believed I guess it might as well be true.

That second list should also include

• Ads

Because ads in the search bar results are one of the things Mozilla cited as precipitating the need for ToS.

It’s exactly the level of discourse your misinformation deserved.

No, fuck that and quit bootlicking. Software makers did just fine without telemetry for decades; your supposed justification is nothing but a bullshit lazy excuse.

Mozilla needs to understand that I don’t want it to have my data to sell or not in the first place.

There is no full cure. Nothing will offer a Chrome based browser…

The full cure is a non-Chrome-based browser, obviously. The notion of “some critical functionality someone needs in a Chrome based browser” would violate web standards and is therefore invalid bullshit and a cynical attempt to move goalposts.

Why are you arguing in bad faith?

The reason why Chromium uses LGPL is because they forked the code from Safari, which had previously forked the code from KHTML (KDE’s web rendering component, used in Konqueror). The LGPL was provably insufficient to prevent corporate usurpation of the project, as a historical fact.

As for the “A” part of AGPL not being relevant for locally-run software, (1) it doesn’t hurt either, and (2) having maximal protections could prevent weird corporate shenanigans that we haven’t thought of yet.

Except in this case, the full cure also exists already and you’re trying to push the temporary treatment instead, for no good reason.

Because its not a permanent forever fix for Edge users its downvote worthy?

Yes.

BSD licensed

Ew. It ought to be AGPLv3.

(I almost just said “copyleft,” but as Chromium proves, even LGPL is insufficient protection from corporate usurpation.)

Like banning kitchen knives because somebody got stabbed with one once.

From what I understand, they did try, but AMD couldn’t get it to work because of signal integrity issues.

The important thing is that it needs to be in a human-readable format encoded as unicode text. Beyond that, any reasonable markup (plaintext, markdown, org-mode, HTML, etc.) is fine.

Inspired by yesterday’s Jeff Geerling video, were we?