So what should we use instead? Let’s assume you’re 100% correct and Mozilla needs to die. What’s our replacement? Which of the other browser vendors listen to the community whatsoever? Mozilla is a large ship, and hard to steer, but it’s not impossible to change. I think killing it, however it is achieved, isn’t the right move. Baby, bath water, etc.
But then we're headed even more into a WebKit monoculture... which is dangerous in it's own way, I think. I don't know, there's no easy answer here, because a brand-new modern web engine is basically an impossible task for a standard FOSS community.
I realized a few months ago that mozilla is run by google drones, so it no longer surprises me that mozilla kills itself.
But the level of stupidity is amazing. I think the people who work there are deliberately recruited in regards to who is the better one at killing off mozilla.
For those who don't know german, Jaeger is "Jäger" is hunter/ranger. A somewhat neutral term in itself but there is also a slight, somewhat remote connection towards some part of the history ("Jagdstaffel" and what not). I have absolutely no idea if this has anything to do with it, mind you - but since the main authors appear to be in the USA, I find that very awkward. Why not just stick to some english name? That would seem a much better it. Or perhaps they think german names are awesome ... it's also weird when you see all the people write Jaeger rather Jäger...
There are plenty of software projects named from a variety of languages not native to the creator of the package. And Jäger has so many neutral meanings and even for a German wouldn't first bring thoughts of the Jagdstaffel I don't think...
Also writing the ä as ae is very common for those who have keyboards without umlaut characters... I've seen it lots of times and doesn't look too weird.
Absolutely. "Hunter" seems like a perfectly acceptable name for something that collects data, and I can almost guarantee that the vast majority of Americans have never even heard of the term. Most Americans in my experience have have little to no knowledge of WWI, let alone the Jadgstaffl. To object to the name on such grounds seems pedantic in the extreme to me.
It's a term that has a little bit of currency in pop culture. Pacific Rim called their giant robots Jaegers, while Eren Jaeger is the main character in Attack on Titan.
Apart from the pop-culture references others have mentioned, the top Google search result is a fairly well-known fashion brand (https://www.jaeger.co.uk), I don't think anyone is that bothered by it. I'd guess the reason for using Jaeger vs. Jäger is simply that the former is much easier to type on many keyboards.
You might be reading a bit more into it than is warranted.
Twitch and YouTube streamers - sure. I see a lot of them. But, software projects? Or so you mean these streamers are streaming while they code or whatever?
Yeah. They have now become dependent on external decision makers.
I wonder if we'll have to read notes such as "how patreon was once great" ... before a sell-out to some other company will happen.
However had, that being said, I applaude the guys who actually bootstrapped the whole thing. The 60 million is of course great, but I think that their INITIAL idea worked in practice, is much, much cooler than the 60 million they got.
Unfortunately I fear that Google has become too big for the whole world and will slurp up everything that can be a competition, just like they slurped up youtube too at one point in time. And we all know that money moves people, so there is that - github, patreon, twitch. Google has things to buy.
Either way it is ethically questionable.
Another example of how evil mozilla has become.