Browsers should be developed by an intercountry nonprofit. Funded by all the countries' governments.
You might have missed recent news about Linux maintainers being kicked off for reasons having nothing to do with Linux. This will not work across "political borders" because psychologically we're all still cavemen in need of a tribe to stick to, and a group of "them" to hate on.
> psychologically we're all still cavemen in need of a tribe to stick to, and a group of "them" to hate on.
I'm not sure this is fundamentally true, but regardless of whether it is or not, our political systems have followed an historical path of development such that it behooves political leaders to think like this, and encourage their followers to.
That is your assumption.
We can't even get the world's governments to agree on what basic human rights are.
It works out so well for the UN!
You can have country-specific nonprofits that cooperate; you can have consumer-rights nonprofits or free-speech nonprofits cooperating...
The best thing about open source is that cooperating on it is very easy.
That is your assumption.
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Why is efficiency the guiding metric of our decision making?
In what way? Google seems like the perfect example of profit obscuring inefficiency.
Only in a highly competitive environment.
But the browser market is not currently highly competitive.