Counterexamples might include Firefox, Blender, and Lemmy.
firefox is not that clear, they get funding by google for putting google as default search engine thus helping google. We have a problem with FOSS funding
While that's true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.
Doesn't this meme say big tech tries to control FOSS and can't?
It is the only way they can get as much funding so I would say that it's more than in the clear, firefox is the only escape from google's monopoly on web (chrominum)
Maybe some examples would be in order.
I agree on that. I'm looking into writting about FOSS funding with examples and proposing solutions for this issue. Just that takes a long time and a meme is easier.
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Maybe some examples would be in order.
Counterexamples might include Firefox, Blender, and Lemmy.
firefox is not that clear, they get funding by google for putting google as default search engine thus helping google. We have a problem with FOSS funding
While that's true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.
Doesn't this meme say big tech tries to control FOSS and can't?
It is the only way they can get as much funding so I would say that it's more than in the clear, firefox is the only escape from google's monopoly on web (chrominum)
I agree on that. I'm looking into writting about FOSS funding with examples and proposing solutions for this issue. Just that takes a long time and a meme is easier.