LWN's guide to 2024

Posted Jan 5, 2024 14:52 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: LWN's guide to 2024 by raven667
Parent article: LWN's guide to 2024

> I think I've come to a round about way of agreeing with this, they keep shooting for the moon and missing (according to their own definition of success) rather than defining a goal that is more achievable and sustainable

The thing is, a "free standalone browser" _is_ not sustainable in the long run. That was the impetus for several of those moonshot projects (most notably FirefoxOS targeting smartphones); to try and make it so they're not entirely dependent upon platforms controlled by other, often hostile, organizations... that use said platforms to push (if not outright embed) their own competing browsers.