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Microsoft Project Manager Says Mozilla Should Get Down From Its 'Philosophical Ivory Tower,' Cease Firefox Development (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A Microsoft program manager has caused a stir on Twitter over the weekend by suggesting that Firefox-maker Mozilla should give up on its own rendering engine and move on with Chromium. "Thought: It's time for @mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really 'cared' about the web, they would be contributing instead of building a parallel universe that's used by less than five percent?" wrote Kenneth Auchenberg, who builds web developer tools for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code.
Auchenberg's post referred to Mozilla's response to Microsoft's announcement in December that it would scrap Edge's EdgeHTML rendering engine for Chromium's. The move will leave Firefox's Gecko engine as the only alternative to Chromium, which is used by Opera and dozens of other browsers. Few people agreed with Auchenberg, including engineers from both Mozilla and Chromium. Long-serving Mozillian Asa Dotzler was not impressed. "Just because your employer gave up on its own people and technology doesn't mean that others should follow," Dotzler replied to Auchenberg. Auchenberg clarified that he didn't want to see Mozilla vanish, but said it should reorganize into a research institution "instead of trying to to justify themselves with the 'protectors of the web' narrative."
Auchenberg's post referred to Mozilla's response to Microsoft's announcement in December that it would scrap Edge's EdgeHTML rendering engine for Chromium's. The move will leave Firefox's Gecko engine as the only alternative to Chromium, which is used by Opera and dozens of other browsers. Few people agreed with Auchenberg, including engineers from both Mozilla and Chromium. Long-serving Mozillian Asa Dotzler was not impressed. "Just because your employer gave up on its own people and technology doesn't mean that others should follow," Dotzler replied to Auchenberg. Auchenberg clarified that he didn't want to see Mozilla vanish, but said it should reorganize into a research institution "instead of trying to to justify themselves with the 'protectors of the web' narrative."
Exactly. Except it's not "abusing" as much as "invading" or "raping."
Would love it if that were the case, but unfortunately in a capitalist administration like this, they will thrive. Profits will go through the roof while the little man suffers and the upper crust makes billions. Maybe if Trump got off his Ivory Tower, but that isn't going to happen in his lifetime.
My bets are on some melting pot of Warren and Hillary. I think Hillary would actually make a great VP if she can handle not being the first woman president. Only then with the white male element removed for a while, companies like Microsoft can be taken care of.
Perhaps you missed the part about Firefox only having 5% market share. Firefox imploded when they became Chrome Junior and worried more about social issues and screenshot sharing tools than making a good browser.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Or in this case, an idiot progressive.
Progressive for using the female pronoun by default,
and idiot for using the female pronoun when talking about an industry that is majority male, on an article about what a male idiot said, as opposed to a female idiot.
Note: When using the pronouns, I'm not talking about gender here, I'm talking about sex.
I don't really care if he gender identifies as a slightly damp turd or whatever is popular these days.
That only makes it more difficult to construct an English sentence, and if he doesn't like that, then I guess It can go fuck Itself
IOS running on Arm, and macOS running on Intel. Sounds cross-platform to me.