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I'm not sure there is a Google-free future for any major part of the Internet, so likely no

• yepthatsreality 6y ago
  As long as devs keep drinking the Chrome kool-aid it won’t. Developers actually have a lot of pull but do not exercise it. As the job market shifts to more blue collar workers. There is less expertise required and those workers are responsible for running tools they don’t understand rather than coding and making ideas. Google’s best interest is to keep development behind closed doors until they’re ready for the public to use their tech, rather than having new tech developed by other companies or via open source.
  • oscargrouch 6y ago
    I think this is a case where "It's the economy, stupid" gets right. We need to build a economy for open-source projects or else the tech titans will eat the world. People need to wake up that its not the nineties anymore, and without a better ecosystem for independent projects to thrive, we are doomed to depend on the scraps of what the titans left to us (mostly their open-source collaterals) Some independent project might pop here and there, but keep them going without structure will lead them to a slow burn to death.
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• dehrmann 6y ago
  That might be like saying, in 2001, there isn't a Microsoft-free future for desktop computing. Apple gained a little market share since then, but it's a mostly moot point because of the rise of mobile. There's going to be a next big thing, and there's a good chance it won't be Google...or Google will just buy it.
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