> Google only develop Android and Chrome to fuel their ad business, those two product can’t turn a profit on their own
That's a good point. If we took these products to be public infrastructure, like roads, would we consider them being owned by ad companies a good idea? I'm leaning towards maintainence schemes for these public infrastructure projects similar to what we have for physical public infrastructure, like roads, rail, bridges, etc. Them being international would be an interesting challenge of course, but I think it's solvable.
Making and financing open-source isn't the same thing. If you want privately funded browsers, they will be either subscription based or ad-oriented. Neither is good. Healthy competition is also hardly possible because of how bloated Web is. It's so expensive to maintain that we only have ~3-5 well maintained browsers.
That's a good point. If we took these products to be public infrastructure, like roads, would we consider them being owned by ad companies a good idea? I'm leaning towards maintainence schemes for these public infrastructure projects similar to what we have for physical public infrastructure, like roads, rail, bridges, etc. Them being international would be an interesting challenge of course, but I think it's solvable.