This (vertical tabs) is still an experimental feature that isn't even in Firefox Labs yet. It's not that surprising that all edge cases have been ironed out yet. I mean, come on.
Zo schrijft hij bijvoorbeeld dat de superrijken de aandacht verleggen door de middenklasse op te zetten tegen de lagere klasse.
Volgens mij zegt hij dat de VVD dat doet, toch? Dus:
Goede observatie zou ik zeggen, maar wat gaat hij hier aan doen dan?
Dit soort artikelen schrijven, en dan hopen dat mensen minder erop stemmen, denk ik :) En dat is denk ik het antwoord op al je vragen. Uiteindelijk veranderen dit soort dingen alleen als mensen hun gedrag veranderen, en de manier om dat te doen is om je platform (in zijn geval, als prominent politicus) te gebruiken.
Maar toegegeven, wellicht was dat effectiever geweest als hij het in Elsevier had geplaatst. Moeten die dat ook wel willen, natuurlijk.
Ik denk dat het antwoord voor hem is om moties in te dienen, wetsvoorstellen te schrijven, mensen te overtuigen om 'm te stemmen, en idealiter een keer te regeren. En voor ons, ehm... Op hem stemmen? :P
What incentives does the for-profit (that's owned by the non-profit) have that a non-profit without a for-profit subsidiary wouldn't have? Both aren't able to maximise revenue for shareholders, and both will always have the option to pay their leaders extravagantly.
And as a well-paid programmer, I haven't been known to donate $100 a year to software projects. As a conservative estimate, let's say Mozilla could run Firefox at one-fifth the current budget, that would still mean we'd need a million people like you that would continue to do so even if, say, the most-often-voted-for feature request is misinterpreted, or changing a "view all tabs" icon suddenly pisses off a significant portion of them enough to stop their donations.
And even if that happened, it's not clear that that would necessarily lead to gaining market share on default browsers or ones that get heavily promoted through search engine homepages or shadily bundled with installers. Which would still mean more and more websites would start to ignore it, which would mean web compatibility would continue to get worse and worse.
Ah, that's the secret? Why didn't anyone tell me this before?! All this slaving away at my day job, when I could just have built a self-sustaining good product - it's that easy!
Google hasn't been forbidden from paying Mozilla - yet, at least. They've only been ruled a monopolist, but what consequences they will face is yet to be determined, and then the appeals process will follow, so it'll be a couple of years before there's any potential impact.
Mozilla has also explicitly tried to have other baskets to put eggs in (Relay. VPN, Monitor Plus, Hubs, etc.), it's just that none of those have been as successful.
I believe MDN and standards partcipation is part of the Corporation. The latter definitely, because implementation experience matters for that. The former also has its own monetisation, and has a lot of content contributed by the Open Web Docs foundation.
Usually the answer is limited resources with unclear payoff, i.e. even with Electron's success, it's not clear that there's room for an alternative in the market, and it'd be a lot of effort to do.
This (vertical tabs) is still an experimental feature that isn't even in Firefox Labs yet. It's not that surprising that all edge cases have been ironed out yet. I mean, come on.