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@AltCode No comparison to Kirk himself or to the arguments his defenders espouse was implied or intended.
for all the criticism of kirk I gotta give him credit for being responsible for so many people adding the word "context" to their vocabularies
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@AltCode Given that scenario, could Vivaldi pay for development on the last open source version of Chromium? Or would they immediately try to find another vendor to free ride from?
(Keep in mind that Edge is not open source, and Microsoft is the second largest committer to Chromium.)
Microsoft is like Vivaldi - not willing to share. Can Vivaldi raise enough money via their distributed sources to take over development of a Chromium fork that rivals Edge and Chrome?
I don't think they can.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@yoasif/115227815284816252
@AltCode I explained the comparison to Kirk defenders; it is about people "adding context" that doesn't actually change the overall conclusion you would draw without the context.
I'm referencing discourse on social; if you haven't seen that, I can see where it might seem out of left field.
I looked at the article that was linked -- the added context didn't reveal where Vivaldi's funding is not powered by advertising -- which I started off with.
@AltCode If their competitors succeed in hurting the bottom line, Google may decide to simply not share their improvements with them.
Paying for traffic is a winning strategy for Google, and they make money on it. They have far less reason to discontinue that than funding their competition.
@AltCode Divestment was a possibility. So is just going closed source to stop free riders.
That would be a perfectly rational choice for the bottom line; they pay for the lion's share of Chromium development and in turn, are powering their competitors.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@yoasif/115227835002688747
People really don't like it when you tell the truth about the #Vivaldi browser; I got blocked for this comment pointing out that Vivaldi, like Mozilla are reliant on ad-tech for business revenue.
That probably isn't enough though -- the fact that they are *more* reliant on Google than Mozilla is -- for #Chromium -- is something no Chrome-bashing Vivaldi user seems to want to talk about.
(Mozilla is nowhere near perfect, but closed source Chromium is worse.)