mozilla's main problem right now appears to be they just do not recognise that they have pissed users' trust up a wall and now we are suspicious of everything they do.
you cannot, in a position like that, just do things which look dodgy as fuck and expect users to suck it up quietly, whether or not they are as they look.
@dalias @dysfun volunteer foss is an extremely ineffective development model for a browser where you really need people with deep expertise who stay with the project long term in a committed manner.
that kind of commitment and experience requirement will naturally yield either grift which doesn't have competence to work on the core (most Firefox forks; avoiding the requirement) or the worst demographics and working environment in open source (see also the Linux kernel)
@dalias @dysfun the only people who can actually get that level of depth in their free time have the amount of free time typical of a ~40 white cis man with a tech job in the global North
browsers also need constant resourcing to deal with chromium having over 10 million dollars in engineering budget and adding spec features where you lose any of your casual userbase if you're late to the party. so you need full time developers, full stop
none of the forks are serious *browser* projects
@dalias well sure but it makes you the "open source" person with the "broken" browser complaining about sites not working, and it seems like everyone who has any value for their time (most people who don't use Linux, even computer people!) will go use Chrome instead, because making sites give a damn about 1% of the userbase is wishful thinking
i too use the "broken" operating system. it works for 99% of what i want. people don't put up with 5% broken.
@dalias the reason that having software developed exclusively by unpaid tech bros sucks is that a team of *generic Linux man* will, in the vast majority of cases, not develop usable software for anyone but software people
see: darktable is used by approximately zero professional photographers, with the exact demographic distribution mentioned above; its entire community is self taught amateurs (predominantly engineers), fundamentally leading to the project direction being amiss wrt actual needs
Are Blender developers paid to develop it?
Yes, actually, they are. https://www.blender.org/about/people/
@dalias @leftpaddotpy Same goes for Kdenlive but it’s not so instantly obvious on where the money goes or if the devs are paid full-time (I assume they are paid for full-time work). (https://kdenlive.org/en/fund/ and https://kdenlive.org/en/about/)
We will use your donation to support members of the Kdenlive team, helping them continue working on the project to add major features and implement technologies required by the industry, keep the software stable and reliable, and maintain the code base.
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