On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 05:21:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 5/11/24 04:35, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > > > > On November 4, 2024 12:21:38 PM Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote:
[...] > > Chromium also? Just asking > https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/12/chromium_api_system_information/ Thanks for that link. My take is that the perimeter of "free" is currently moving quickly: back then (TM) it was corporate secrets, patents and software licenses; since a while it's "hacker capture": Google (and Microsoft, and Facebook, and others, mind you) are, directly or indirectly, giving jobs (and tools, and perspective...) to most of our community. In exchange, they squat on strategic applications and services (Chrom*, Android, Github VSCode...) and shape them in ways that others (Firefox et al) *have* to follow. So while regulators are dragging Google to court for dominance in the browser (well for its misuse in search), they: - have pushed web devels to use their tools (Lighthouse) to "optimize" (for whom?) their web sites - have built dominance in mobile etc. etc. Same, of course, for the other biggies (and those named less often, like Palantir, etc.). The newest "frontier" [1] seems to be AI, a bit early to tell, but they seem to be betting on it. Cheers [1] Capitalism always needs a frontier, where it slashes and burns. As Hannah Arend put it [2], capitalism has to repeat its original robbery again and again. [2] https://ebrary.net/139733/economics/accumulation_endless_repetition_original -- tomás
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