On: Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google

[oriesdan]

Yep, that's in line with what I was saying, except for the conclusion.

Yes, I don't see either small teams keeping up with the amount of features we currently have (and security is a direct factor of the amount of features), but I would rather see them scaling down browsers than making sure we can keep adding to them.

Also, beware to not discard "hobbyists" too easily. Hobbyists did create GNU (and still are maintaining it) and early linux. And Blink comes from Webkit, which comes from khtml, made by hobbyists.

[dblohm7 → oriesdan]

That might be how those projects started, but it’s sure as hell not how they’re run now.

There’s no way they could revert to hobbyist projects and survive. Either they would die off or the money would fork them.

[hvis → oriesdan]

Hobbyists can't as participate in the web standards organizations, and lobby for the changes most beneficial to the user (and not big corp).

[DreaminDani → hvis]

That's not true! You can get involved as an individual contributor and become a part of the web standards community. There's even a contribution guide: https://wpc.guide/

[hvis → DreaminDani]

How are you, as an individual, going to protest the inclusion of "next DRM" in the HTML6?