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Are we There yet? Current adoption status of various technologies (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago by avidseeker to c/[email protected]

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Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEGXL yet? Are we Rust yet?

I’ve gathered a meta-tracker for the adoption state of futuristic technologies.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with webp if its Foss?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because it's yet another example of Google's near-monopoly over the Web's architecture. It's not healthy for good web development. It's like the 90s and Microsoft all over again.

I mean, fuck, we're already getting websites that've been "optimized" for Chromium-based browsers—in other words, semi-broken for non-Chromium browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If its FOSS, then it can't be a monopoly, by definition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I said a near-monopoly. Also, even if it's foss, by creating the format, they established the baseline parameters of that format.

That gives them a significant degree of control.

Edit: I also hate it because so many of the programs I use don't support it, so I constantly have to copy > paste into image editor program > Save as PNG.

Though admittedly this is mostly an adoption thing. Still, it's a major problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Google has discovered that FOSS software under their full control is better than pure proprietary software for monopoly abuse and rent seeking. With FOSS software, they enjoy the automatic popularity that they otherwise would have had to market very hard for. At the same time, none of Google's free software is truly free. Google devs regularly neglect and reject overwhelming user requirements (jpegxl in chrome is probably the best example of this) and choose designs that clearly favor the company monetarily. It isn't even practical for normal people to fork their projects.

Google often uses their 'FOSS' projects to twist open standards or the market to their advantage. Android and Chrome are very significant players in this regard. Using Chrome, Google even managed to make the W3C standard too complicated for others to make alternative browsers easily. Google has similar ambitions in the multimedia market. They want to replace the monopolistic media formats with quasi-monopolistic formats like webp and av1 instead of truly open ones like jpegxl.