@michaelchampion@indieweb.social
Post #2389482
2023-10-22 18:36 UTC
@RickByers@toot.cafe The elephant in the room is that Google is the only player with a business model that clearly supports funding all this. I've learned from this thread they contribute 95-ish percent of the Chromium commits, fund much of Igalia's work that makes them #2, subsidize the "rival" browser engines to get default search engine status ...
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@michaelchampion@indieweb.social 2023-10-22 18:38
@RickByers@toot.cafe The Deinotherium giganteum in the room is that the web platform itself may be a mature, commoditized technology that few are excited about anymore. And nobody but Google has much of an economic incentive to invest in doing more than incremental maintenance on.