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Comment by lofaszvanitt

5 days ago

Browsers should be developed by an intercountry nonprofit. Funded by all the countries' governments.

You might have missed recent news about Linux maintainers being kicked off for reasons having nothing to do with Linux. This will not work across "political borders" because psychologically we're all still cavemen in need of a tribe to stick to, and a group of "them" to hate on.

  • > psychologically we're all still cavemen in need of a tribe to stick to, and a group of "them" to hate on.

    I'm not sure this is fundamentally true, but regardless of whether it is or not, our political systems have followed an historical path of development such that it behooves political leaders to think like this, and encourage their followers to.

You can have country-specific nonprofits that cooperate; you can have consumer-rights nonprofits or free-speech nonprofits cooperating...

The best thing about open source is that cooperating on it is very easy.

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  • Profit is, by definition, inefficiency.

    • At the end of the day every employee is the most granular bit of profit-making - I trade my time and zero money for money. 100% profit.

      If you removed the money you paid me could say you're being more efficient, but I don't know if that's a useful definition of efficient. Just as you could steal some raw materials and say you're being efficient.

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  • Only in a highly competitive environment.

    But the browser market is not currently highly competitive.