Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI

Re:Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI by return_to_monke on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:37PM (#35263633)

a) you shouldn't be demoted because of your political donations, as long as you're not donating to do harm - whether Eich was donating to a harmful organization is debatable

b) This has nothing to do with "wholeness" and everything to do with Google pushing chrome as hard as they can.

- There is android phones, and I am pretty sure some Google services would advertise it to you - Chromebooks are used in most public schools across America

c) Eich later went on to found Brave. Have you ever seen anyone in the real world use Brave? They passed 50M users one year ago: https://brave.com/2021-recap/

Wikipedia states 63% of people used the internet worldwide in 2021: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...

that is 4.9 billion people. So, brave has a market share of, drum roll, 1%.

In conclusion, the argument that Eich would have led them to success is not a good one, in my opinion.

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Re:Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI by BrendanEich on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:17AM (#35299314)

Firefox share loss since I left. Yes, it was losing share before I left too. Counterfactuals aside, growing Brave to 57M MAU from 0 wasn't a minor thing, and we are still growing in spite of Chrome's market power. Firefox (click on legend items for other browsers) is still losing share.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2014...

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