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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kasra_mp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kasra_mp</span></a></span> It's not a question of how long it took (though that's a strong indicator of Google's dedication to the task), but of what the result is:</p><blockquote><p>The total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of writing. If you added the combined word counts of the C11, C++17, UEFI, USB 3.2, and POSIX specifications, all 8,754 published RFCs, and the combined word counts of everything on Wikipedia’s list of longest novels, you would be 12 million words short of the W3C specifications.2</p><p>I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.</p><p>It is impossible to:</p><ul><li>Implement the web correctly</li><li>Implement the web securely</li><li>Implement the web at all</li></ul></blockquote><p>-- Drew DeVault</p><p><a href="https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Rec</span><span class="invisible">kless-limitless-scope.html</span></a></p><p>Complexity is a principle tool of monopolisation.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@stux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stux</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DrewDevault" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrewDevault</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/EmbraceExtendExtinguish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EmbraceExtendExtinguish</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/W3CSpecification" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>W3CSpecification</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Complexity</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GoogleChrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoogleChrome</span></a></p>
FiXato<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@wilfredh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wilfredh</span></a></span> I was wondering if it was in response to <a href="https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Cash-for-leftpad.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Cas</span><span class="invisible">h-for-leftpad.html</span></a>, but <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DrewDevault" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrewDevault</span></a>'s article actually already links to it.</p>
Strypey<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/redis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Redis</span></a> also stands out as a cautionary entry in the history of Contributor License Agreements. Everyone who has contributed to the now-proprietary Redis modules has had their hard work stolen and sold by <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/redislabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedisLabs</span></a> under a <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/proprietary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proprietary</span></a> license."<br>- <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/drewdevault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrewDeVault</span></a> <br><a href="https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/22/Commons-clause-will-destroy-open-source.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drewdevault.com/2018/08/22/Com</span><span class="invisible">mons-clause-will-destroy-open-source.html</span></a></p>
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