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  • Honestly, I wonder how much money she gave up? I would need to be "post-economic" before I could do something like that.
    by throwaway2037
  • I am sorry but I don't really have any respect for developers who help empower the evil AdChromium empire. I understand that people invest their time in making money; I have no problem with that. But I am not going to read a chromium-promo - aka a Google-promo - at the end of the day. That company should have already been split up decades ago.
    by shevy-java
  • > Google is owned by institutional investors, while Igalia is owned by employees, which the audience applauded.

    Between 63 and 68% of Google is owned by households, directly or via funds.

    I'm not sure why would it be more fair for a company to be private and owned by its workers, versus being owned by anybody who wants to.

    by epolanski
  • We have reverse engineering now, how long till we have better browser alternatives?
    by Charly_HW
  • When i read paragraphs of stuff about corporate culture from engineers --- thanks captain obvious for pointing out 180 employees isn't the same as 180,000 or that software has some of the same challenges in both environments --- I figure:

    - this is sales and advertisement

    - person has nothing serious going on

    - can't be serious because people who care about company culture in a serious way are board members or senior managers at small companies not engineers giving anecdotes about what they think. Managers are accountable for decisions taken.

    by scrubs
  • Also worth noting https://lwn.net/Articles/1097760/ - Gentoo has given up on building Chromium from source, because upstream "do not test their builds with any of their allegedly 'optional' features disabled" and "[i]n the case of Chromium, keeping all the toggle switches working (despite chronic neglect from upstream) is a monumental, nigh-insurmountable task." One maintainer said he could not possibly test all the combinations of USE flags in the Gentoo build, since his laptop took 15-16 hours to compile Chromium (I presume for just one build, which would have to be repeated 2^N times to test all possible flag combinations).

    Much more in the LWN article, I'm not going to quote everything.

    by rmunn

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