@GossiTheDog In other words, their wetware was targeted.

"Our staff is our most valued asset. We depreciate on it."

@finestructure fun fact: you can't subscribe to Slate's ad free offering with Firefox and an adblocker. Had to fire up chromium just to find out that they charge $120 per year. Oh, and of course you only find the price after the trial period in the small print, the prominently displayed price is $15.

Sigh. I like one of their podcasts but was very put off by being marketed to in this way.

@nixCraft So many open source projects have done a rug pull on their users that "past results may not be indicative of future results".

After a ton of projects got burned by corporate greed, some tried creative licensing to at least carve out a foothold, resulting in licenses like Affero.

Of all the projects I evaluated for my web site visitor counting, I picked plausible.io because it was open source, seemed to be above board when it comes to their vision of the future, and seemed to have a plan for sticking around by having a hosted option.

I'm putting my money where my mouth is by sponsoring tools like plausible on GitHub to the tune of what I'd pay for a commercial service.

I haven't followed their license shenanigans recently, but seeing them reviewed like this for trying to carve out a market while retaining free and unfettered self hosting options reminds me of Monty Python's Judean People's front feuding with the People's Front of Judea, with the Roman occupier watching in amusement.

@nonlinear @ashok @SecurityWriter Actually, in most fonts that support old style numerals, you have to select them using OpenType features. I've documented the black magic to do so in CSS or LibreOffice in the DINish docs: https://fonts.playbeing.com/dinish/. Then you just type them on your keyboard and hey presto: your numbers look nice with lower case text

I use old style tabular all the time. It's much easier to distinguish the digits, especially when you're tired.

If you don't want to deal with OpenType you can use a tool like https://github.com/twardoch/fonttools-opentype-feature-freezer to create a specialized font with just the features you want.

@XaetaCore @calvin_thefreak @nixCraft The problem with forking is that maintaining something as big and complicated as a browser takes significant effort. Maintenance is not sexy work. If Mozilla keels over, the forks can no longer depend on the upstream doing the heavy lifting.

I do not think a world with just one browser would be a nice prospect.

Keep in mind that, much as I hate what happens in the Mozilla board room, I'm not under any illusions regarding the competition. Especially if you see that most browser makers are unwilling and quite likely unable to make their own engine, so there's only a handful in Mozilla's league. If I ran Mozilla, I'd be hellbent on turning out a code base that would put chromium to shame, but alas, that is not how the dice rolled (and I'd prolly make a lousy manager too).