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by yjftsjthsd-h 1055 days ago
> If I and other chromium leads didn't actually care about openness then you'd be able to tell pretty clearly because Chromium would be closed source, we wouldn't have big programs like wpt.fyi, and we wouldn't bother even trying to talk about this stuff on open mailing lists.

That only helps if anyone believes you'll listen to anything on the mailing lists. Right now it looks like you publish things there so you can claim community input, and then go ahead with whatever you wanted to do in the first place.

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On the other hand, it's uncannily similar to former FCC chairman Ajit Pai discarding public commentary as "fake" in favor of whatever the lobbyists shoved in front of him during the whole net neutrality thing a few years back.

As the expression goes: It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it.