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1. Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 02:45:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   Honestly, I can't help but snrk when people go like "nooo, firefox must not die, what about the open web".
   
   Mozilla is anything but standing for the open web.
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 02:45:51 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • 𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:
     @post @nyx Because Linux isn't anti-competitive and compared to Chrome it's not as much of a monopoly (like video game consoles, Steam Deck excluded, aren't based on Linux).
     
     Oh and you know, Linux isn't a single organisation, in a way it's already anti-trusted.
   • Post (post@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 02:45:52 JST Post

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     • 𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

     @lanodan @nyx

     When it comes to Blink’s quasi-monopoly it is not a matter of antitrust, otherwise we would be in trouble with Linux kernel being everywhere.

     We should just have public funded implementations of major standards including the whole Web and other important products and services like Linux kernel and Wikipedia.

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 02:45:53 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • 𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:
     @nyx I don't trust any state to go an antitrust against Google.
     Because Microsoft barely got lawsuits over what they did against browser competition all the way back to Netscape.
     Like EU did force them to make users choose a browser on first bootup back in Windows 7 but it didn't get followed on later versions…
   • 𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 02:45:54 JST 𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

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     @lanodan I've been saying for awhile that Mozilla should just die already so that Google will have less protecting it from an antitrust lawsuit
   • Post (post@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 02:46:15 JST Post

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     @lanodan

     Linux kernel is waaay more irreplaceable than Blink. There are basically no good alternatives to Linux kernel while Gecko and WebKit are pretty decent alternatives to Blink.

     Linux kernel development is controlled by a so called benevolent dictator. Structurally it is an even worse situation than the Blink one, it just happen to be low enough in the stack not to affect end users much and being managed well so far, but once Linus Torvalds retire it would be pretty easy for the corporations that form the Linux Foundation to change its direction.