Morning listenings, on the bike:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/6-stephanie-stimac-igalia-for-a-better-web/
We also talk about the development of browser engines and the challenges of funding open-source projects. Whether you’re a developer or just curious about how the web evolves, this conversation offers a glimpse behind the scenes of browser development.
Halfway through it now, interesting to learn about Igalia and what they do, but more again and again stumbling across that huge elephant in the corner, that elephant of browsers and subsequently our access to most of nowadays "internet" for most people ist essentially funded by corporations. Period. And choosing a non-Mozilla fork of Firefox or a non-Google browser shell based on Chromium isn't changing anything about that. Even worse, it seems that this way we ought to be better supporting these companies because, at the very end, they fund what's needed for a lot of Free and Open Source implementations to even exist (not even talking about them employing a lot of developers and allowing them to be able to work on Free or Open Source code either full time or at least in their spare time). Imagining sustainable organic farmers doing this kind of ethical work in their spare time while being employed by some shady agricultural corporation that does pay their bills and earns them a living? That sounds ... more than just a bit difficult. It sounds like Free and Open Source software has a dire self-sustainability issue. But maybe that's only me.