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This is surely a smokescreen for Google’s monopolization of Internet standards.
And even if weren’t, I cannot emphasize enough how much that list of companies should also NOT be in charge of setting open standards. Oligopoly, monopoly with the illusion of choice…
we remain committed to being the responsible steward of the Chromium project
https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-chromium-based.html?m=1
So this neutral space is still subservient to Google’s whims.
So the Linux Foundation is in Google’s pocket. Good to know,
That’s a pretty unfair kneejerk without receipts.
When it comes to a megacorp like Alphabet/Google, assuming foul play and bribery should always be the kneejerk.
More likely, it’s calculated. The Linux Foundation probably did the math and realized that they could either participate in it, or watch Google run it themselves, packing the board with sycophants and leaving it with no real oversight.
This way, there’s actually a trusted nonprofit voice in the room.
I hope you’re right. I just have the problem of thinking if you’ve got 9 megacorp supports and one nonprofit, you have 10 supporters for the largest megacorp.
Maybe. Depends on what they do with it. But assuming they have any power on this board at all, it’ll be better that they’re there than if they weren’t. It’s not like Linux Foundation “keeping their hands clean” is going to help anything other than optics.
“Google could be forced to sell Chrome” was the news in late november so I guess this a reaction to that.
I want Chrome to be sold, honestly.
I still don’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.
This seems more a safeguard for if that happens, since Chromium project would be in jeopardy
