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1. Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 03:04:44 JST Drew DeVault

   FOSS projects don't compete with each other; the FOSS ecosystem as a whole competes with proprietary software

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 03:05:09 JST Adrian Cochrane

     in reply to

     @drewdevault What if your projects' a browserengine?

   • wizzwizz4 (wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 04:07:43 JST wizzwizz4

     in reply to

     • Adrian Cochrane

     @alcinnz People still cooperate with each other: even the worst Google-pushed web standards still get feedback from Mozilla people, and often the core-js guy as well. Sure, sometimes we get things like <portal> or Google AMP, but the W3C still exists and is still relevant.

     Note that Google Chrome contains proprietary software, and even Firefox contains proprietary components. (Contrast browsers like Dillo, NetSurf and Lynx.) So this area isn't quite an exception to @drewdevault's claim.

   • Matt "msw" Wilson (msw@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 04:20:13 JST Matt "msw" Wilson

     in reply to

     @drewdevault everything that requires finite resources (such as the time and attention of both software users and maintainers) competes for them.

     But in the FOSS world, we are (generally) free to collaborate and copy between projects, which is indeed a somewhat different competitive landscape compared to the proprietary world...