Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom...
by prox on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:47PM
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Yeah it seems like the right kind of attrition. I would definitely pay patreon-wise for Firefox.
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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom...
by klysm on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:56PM
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Unfortunately you would be in the vast minority. I’m not sure there’d be enough individuals willing to do it to keep up with chrome
Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom...
by MichaelCollins on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:01PM
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A big part of the reason browsers are so expensive to build and maintain is because Google keeps expanding the set of features browsers are expected to implement (and Mozilla offers no meaningful resistance to this.) Google creates a problem so large that only Google has the funds to solve it.
Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom...
by speed_spread on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:58PM
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Right kind of attrition? Execs would fire every dev rather than themselves take a pay cut. The fact that this would actually kill the project is beyond them because they'd stay in office a little longer.