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Deeply agree on that list. But there are some o at least one company that I'd actually trust more than others, and support, and that's Mozilla. Because there's
by zobzu 15y ago
Deeply agree on that list.
But there are some o at least one company that I'd actually trust more than others, and support, and that's Mozilla. Because there's no share holders. Because it's owned by non-profit. And because their track record is perfect so far. Everything's open. All the development is in the open, not just the code.
Everything's made for our best interest actually.
- bru 15y agoWhat about Opera? Their software is unfortunately proprietary, but I trust them. As far as I know, they never sold any data they got though their proxies with Opera Mini. And they got a lot.
- ygjb 15y agoHow much is "as far as I know" worth these days?
- zobzu 15y agoI'm liking the opera guys. they do good stuff and they're small, yet still alive. That being said, it doesn't make them good on the open source front. They're proprietary. They don't develop in the open. So while I like them and their product, I don't trust them the way I can trust Mozilla. In other words: I don't trust Google, MS, Opera, or any other such company. They make good products (yes, even MS), but again it's a different matter.
- Jgrubb 15y agoFunny enough, I gave FF the heave somewhere in 3.x and switched to Chrome. I love Chrome. I love working on Chrome. But I've been thinking a lot the last few days about what you just said. Now how do I get my bookmarks out of Chrome and back into FF...
- Jgrubb 15y agoSo, that wasn't so difficult.
- duk3luk3 15y agoYou should check who pays 80% of Mozilla's budget based on a secret contract Mozilla is not allowed to talk about. Not the users.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoAnd? Their code is still open source, their development resources, calls and notes are available in a wiki. They, in contrast to both Google (I love Chrome, don't get me wrong) and Microsoft have a vested standards-first focus and even their "app store" that is in development is entirely standardized and HTML5/w3c based versus the Chrome Web Store. Who cares where their money comes from? There is no doubt in my mind, whatsoever, that the only influence Google has bought is the default value for "search provider" for the search box, and the branded homepage.