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Comment Re:Google should divest Chrome (Score 1) 141

But the source code for Firefox will continue to exist and Firefox can continue just fine. In fact, Firefox might be better if it isn't shackled to Mozilla's bloated and incompetent bureaucracy. See: Palemoon.

Just fine is a huge overestimation. Firefox project is large and complex that a few people working on it in their spare time can't possibly manage.

Palemoon (like the other derivatives) is jut a bit of lipstick put on the work made of other people., its developers don't touch the core.

Comment monopoly (Score 1) 179

[quote]First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet.[/quote]

I disagree from the start. Chrome was heavily helped by Google search engine monopoly, when people went to search something on google.com, there were pushed towards Chrome.

Comment Re: Problem 1 for the "Open Source Is Better" move (Score 1) 56

Most of the time the company end the product because they think they can make more profit selling something else, not necessarily because there is .no profit at all. And when the product is full of patents, licensed code and dirty fixes, selling it may not be that easy.

Comment toasted (Score 3, Insightful) 54

Indian IT industry is covering the low price/low quality/low effort market segment, the area where AI has the greatest impact, I would say they are toasted. The few who do quality work will remain, but the large bulk who want just a relatively well paid (for India) white collar job will have to change.

Comment Re:it makes no difference (Score 1) 65

Eventually, two years after any major format change. Until then, they are supported only by a handful of major players like Adobe who work with the camera manufacturer under an NDA to develop support for those formats, and it still takes additional years before they are fully supported even when you limit yourself to software by the major players.

I am pretty sure support in FOSS is faster than that, I use darktable on Linux.

Comment Not likely (Score 1) 95

At my workplace (public administration) we have a lot of PCs still using Office 2016, some with 2013 and even very few with 2010, all of them with perpetual licenses. With subscription, we would pay trough the nose for those. And the argument that we could have all those installs up to date to the latest version doesn't hold... the PCs would not be powerful enough to run latest Windows and Office.

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