It’s a generally recognised principle in economics that we want competition to take place, and for consumers to have a choice - for a plethora of reasons too large to list here.
The most important IMO is a political one though: we don’t want monopolies for the same reason we don’t want monarchies and dictatorships. Being the sole provider of any very important product puts an obscene amount of power in the hand of a single corporation (or a handful of them). We never want that much power to be so concentrated in so few individuals, because it’s fundamentally injust, and always leads to catastrophe.
Also consider that if that power is a corporation or a “private” individual, they’re not accountable to anyone but their shareholders (who, in turn never want the corp to be anything other than a money making machine). Even a dictator is more accountable to his subjects than a multinational corporation is to anyone.
So there you have it, that’s why we need alternatives.
PLENTY of reasons if they oppose enshitification… but if they embrace it, then yes, they’ll just be another pimple in the ass of enshitificated software
Chrome/edge are the same (yes, I know edge is technically better)
If everything only needs to adhere to chromium then chromium can put propriety code that only they are privy to and when web standards are made around it all competition can’t exist
We already have webapps that say they only work on chrome
I wonder what is going to be Firefox reason to even exist if we already have Chrome and Edge?
It’s a generally recognised principle in economics that we want competition to take place, and for consumers to have a choice - for a plethora of reasons too large to list here. The most important IMO is a political one though: we don’t want monopolies for the same reason we don’t want monarchies and dictatorships. Being the sole provider of any very important product puts an obscene amount of power in the hand of a single corporation (or a handful of them). We never want that much power to be so concentrated in so few individuals, because it’s fundamentally injust, and always leads to catastrophe. Also consider that if that power is a corporation or a “private” individual, they’re not accountable to anyone but their shareholders (who, in turn never want the corp to be anything other than a money making machine). Even a dictator is more accountable to his subjects than a multinational corporation is to anyone. So there you have it, that’s why we need alternatives.
PLENTY of reasons if they oppose enshitification… but if they embrace it, then yes, they’ll just be another pimple in the ass of enshitificated software
Allows other competitors to exist
Chrome/edge are the same (yes, I know edge is technically better)
If everything only needs to adhere to chromium then chromium can put propriety code that only they are privy to and when web standards are made around it all competition can’t exist
We already have webapps that say they only work on chrome