Prompted by recent US court rulings, Igalia's Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer chat about court cases worldwide that could radically change how the web ecosystem is funded.
I feel like you're missing something very important. You act as though the money Google pays to Mozilla, Apple, etc., is fixed income or income that was "earned". But the money, coming largely from monopolistic practices, is from anti-competitive "rents" -- in other words, money that should not have gone to Google in the first place. A few examples (that may seem minor but are part of an accumulative set of practices that lock users in and make them pay): - My competitors bought keywords for my business. So I have to outbid them - Google constantly nags about paying for services that were given to me for free, even when I started using them at, for example, a public school - Constantly nagged by other sites to log in with Google - Forced to use Chrome for websites, forced to turn off ad-blocking By breaking their monopoly, the rents that go to Google could be money that gets freed-up and spread out to other companies, other industries, etc. So Google's actions put them in a situation where they control lots of money that they have no "right" to.
I feel like you're missing something very important. You act as though the money Google pays to Mozilla, Apple, etc., is fixed income or income that was "earned". But the money, coming largely from monopolistic practices, is from anti-competitive "rents" -- in other words, money that should not have gone to Google in the first place. A few examples (that may seem minor but are part of an accumulative set of practices that lock users in and make them pay):
- My competitors bought keywords for my business. So I have to outbid them
- Google constantly nags about paying for services that were given to me for free, even when I started using them at, for example, a public school
- Constantly nagged by other sites to log in with Google
- Forced to use Chrome for websites, forced to turn off ad-blocking
By breaking their monopoly, the rents that go to Google could be money that gets freed-up and spread out to other companies, other industries, etc.
So Google's actions put them in a situation where they control lots of money that they have no "right" to.