Google and Mozilla Are Herding Web Users Like a Bunch of Sheep to be 'Monetised'
THE community is still developing some new protocols while monopolistic corporations make or take over their "own" patented bloatware (Google tends to buy companies for stuff like VP8/9). Ogg used to be a freedom-respecting and community-developed alternative to the patent cartel, but then Red Hat (IBM) hired the main developer and Ogg stagnated over time. Now Google wants to herd us all like a bunch of sheep [1, 2], moving everything - even Wikipedia - to WebM. Expect Mozilla to play along. Ryan quotes the part which says: "Gecko: Under consideration Private discussions. I asked if they'd like an RFP for this, but haven't yet heard back."
"Private discussions," he calls it. "Mozilla does not develop Firefox in the open. When anything that is in the open starts getting criticism, they make it so nobody can discuss it by closing that thread."
The Web isn't open anymore. It hasn't been for years. We certainly need more alternatives to it. The monopoly cannot be worked around if we adopt the monopoly's protocols, which moreover change all the time (they control the process). █