Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Status of google chrome and chromium

[jaromil]

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On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:03:49AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:

> The greatest irony  for me is Google (apparently)  provides > 3/4 of
> Mozilla corps funding. Wonder what'll happen to them now.

well, considering that Mozilla already looks like getting ~ 2/4 of the
users donations  online (the other  half to Wikipedia...) and  all our
little foundations are  drowning, it sounds pretty logical  to me they
break this monopoly and "do good" for the sake of diversity.

Plus  I've   had  very   bad  experience  interacting   with  Mozilla,
considering we share quite some technology and i didn't even asked for
free beer:  they have  this autistical behaviour  of non-collaborating
with developers "outside", which i  guess also reflects on the quality
of what they produce - which  has never been really high eh, ask Jamie
Zawinsky.. :)


> Just so I'm sure what you're saying: You say that being able to turn
> *off*  "incognito" is  ok, as  long  as "incognito"  is the  default
> behaviour?

oh  no.  i'm  saying  is ok  to  have incognito  as  default and  then
optionally switch to "public" mode;  i suspect if that would have been
the policy of Firefox earlier we  would have much less problems in the
wild with all kinds of predators for people's privacy.

> I would  consider forking without  attempting to work  with upstream
> first bad, no question. (I don't consider slapping some new branding
> on top to be a fork).

yep, sure not.

somehow Iron plays also on ambiguity between forking and branding.

> > can include contribution and/or forking - re-branding can't be bad
> > if it  gets you  some beers,  since we don't  get any  from Google
> > anyway.
> 
> Speak for yourself :p [1]
>
> [1] off to linux.conf.au soon, which has had google provided beer for
> the last few years. :)

cool :) would like to visit one day. greet Sister0 if she's there!

BTW  we also  get free  beer[1] crates  in our  squat, 
 but  it's brought in by bearded Fedora agents :)
 and they still love us even if we use apt!!


[1] seen this? http://freebeer.fscons.org eheheh



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