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Is it just me who wishes all the organisations supporting user rights banded together and hit the market as a viable 3rd ecosystem of products? All the Linux v

by eudora 8y ago

Is it just me who wishes all the organisations supporting user rights banded together and hit the market as a viable 3rd ecosystem of products? All the Linux vendors, all the distributed social media (PeerTube, mastodon, hubzilla), all the private search engines like duckduckgo, all the open source hardware like Purism... Imagine them doing an EU and pooling all their resources to produce a coherent yet distributed, open and free ecosystem with a browser by Firefox, search by DDG, OS by Linux, phone by Purism, etc... They could cross-support each other's efforts, promote eacother etc. I'd live there instead of Google/Microsoft/Facebook world.

billylindeman 8y ago
The missing piece IMO is funding, but that may be something that the crypto-currency world could fill. Not sure what the road to that world looks like, but we definitely need a contender because all of the major tech companies have become disturbingly anti-consumer.
- eudora 8y ago
  Ubuntu's (failed) Kickstarter raised 12.8 million to build a phone which seems like a lot Purism raised something like 2.5 and are using it to develop their first phone, and it seems to be going great, on track for April release. Ubuntu etc are making money and doing good work. While that's great, I think you're right. That for example, GNOME releases don't have nearly as much goodies as say Mac OS, because they're working with drastically less money and employees. Take Firefox OS or Ubuntu touch. The amount of money being pumped into iOS and Android must be absolutely incredible. How do these open source vendors compete with the billions of platform investment from these giants? They just end up with an interior product, so they end up with no market share. Some bright lights are Ubuntu and duckduckgo, they're profitable and have their niches. I think I'm suggesting they band together because that can only increase adoption amongst them all - if for example Firefox had duckduckgo as default, and Linux had Firefox as default, that would help those services quite a bit. I guess though, that if Firefox is targeting mass adoption, they'll have more luck with Google as default. Which is sad.

by eudora 8y ago

billylindeman 8y ago

The missing piece IMO is funding, but that may be something that the crypto-currency world could fill. Not sure what the road to that world looks like, but we definitely need a contender because all of the major tech companies have become disturbingly anti-consumer.

eudora 8y ago
Ubuntu's (failed) Kickstarter raised 12.8 million to build a phone which seems like a lot Purism raised something like 2.5 and are using it to develop their first phone, and it seems to be going great, on track for April release. Ubuntu etc are making money and doing good work. While that's great, I think you're right. That for example, GNOME releases don't have nearly as much goodies as say Mac OS, because they're working with drastically less money and employees. Take Firefox OS or Ubuntu touch. The amount of money being pumped into iOS and Android must be absolutely incredible. How do these open source vendors compete with the billions of platform investment from these giants? They just end up with an interior product, so they end up with no market share. Some bright lights are Ubuntu and duckduckgo, they're profitable and have their niches. I think I'm suggesting they band together because that can only increase adoption amongst them all - if for example Firefox had duckduckgo as default, and Linux had Firefox as default, that would help those services quite a bit. I guess though, that if Firefox is targeting mass adoption, they'll have more luck with Google as default. Which is sad.