Comment by JoshTriplett
6 days ago
Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense, especially if that foundation was then immediately funded by a variety of companies rather than just one big advertising company.
The obvious test for whether the browser is actually independent: what is the response to "let's add an ad-blocker by default".
> Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense,...
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There would be few incentives to try and pull off something like that if nobody had any faith in the product every becoming extremely profitable though.
Isn't openapi pro-profit? Or at least I thought it was.
This is wishful thinking. Non-profits that don’t turn into for-profit turn into a shitshow of incompetence instead.
You all need to learn about employer owned companies, in Brasil it's called cooperativas not sure in english, and that would fix that
Not necessarily, see The Linux Foundation Europe competently maintains Servo.
My comment could rub tech people in the wrong way (for a good reason).
I meant incompetence at the company governance level, not technical.
There's massive technical competence in non-profits.
This brilliance is just wasted by leaders who sacrifice business acumen over the mission.