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Or perhaps the multi-billion-dollar corporations could stop piggy-backing on volunteers and invest in maintaining the Web platform?
by Kwpolska 1y ago
Or perhaps the multi-billion-dollar corporations could stop piggy-backing on volunteers and invest in maintaining the Web platform?
- robocat 1y agoWhich popular browsers are significantly leaning on individual contributors or volunteers?
- mhitza 1y agoAlmost all of them? as I recall there was a single volunteer developer maintaining the xml/xslt libraries they were using. Wasn't it similar with openssl 13+ years ago? Few volunteer maintainers, and only after a couple of major vulnerabilities money got thrown at that project? I'm sure there's more and that's why the famous xkcd comic is always of relevance.
- Kwpolska 1y agoGoogle decided to drop XSLT, because the volunteer-maintained libxslt had no maintainers for some time. So, instead of helping the project, they just decided to remove a feature.
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoBut by (attempting to) remove this dependency, Google indeed decided to stop piggy-backing on another volunteer - as requested. Be careful what you wish for. :-)
- josefx 1y agoWere you born before or after heartbleed uncovered the sorry state of OpenSSL and the complete absence of funding it was maintained under? So to answer your question: Every single one of them, from Google with its billions, to Mozilla with Googles billions, none of them would spend even a cent on critical open source projects they relied on as long as they could get away with it.
- mpyne 1y agoThey did, the issue is that the improved Web platform they invested so much to build and maintain has no use for XSLT, which is obsolete in the modern world of good JavaScript, JSON and modern Fetch APIs.