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Slight nitpick: I wish they would use the term "other browser suppliers" instead of "other browser vendors", as Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc. are not sold for money, they are supplied for free.

But this is good news. Die SHA-1, die!

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Free to me doesn't matter. By one definition a vendor is a company that supplies goods. Some definitions go further to say that they "sell" the goods. However there is nothing to indicate in any definition of vendor that money has to change hands. A company could be a vendor for a particular product and give it away for free. Additionally whether an organization is non profit or for profit really doesn't change the situation.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vendor.asp

http://www.yourdictionary.com/supplier

Counter-point: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Vendor

Counter-point to your counter-point!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Vendor_Pre...

Here are some other entries on that page so you can tell how seriously you should take that list: "LAMP system” "Content" "Compensation" "Creator"

Wow, what a page! My personal favorite is "Creative commons licensed", which you apparently shouldn't use because it's universally more important to distinguish the license based on the FSF's definition of free.

Also replacing various biased, propaganda terms (fair point) with "corrected" biased, propaganda terms (less fair) is an interesting choice.

edit: typo

In CSS they're referred to as "Vendor Prefixes": https://wiki.csswg.org/spec/vendor-prefixes

Regardless of usage in normal English, in the context of web browsers "Vendor" seem to be the correct terminology.

One of the bigger sources for browser revenue is to be the default search provider in the address bar, or failing that, being one of the handful of default options.

These companies/organizations all engage in financial or service transactions with each other even if they give their product away to end users for 'free'.

Honest question. This is the sentence you're referring to:

> We will continue to coordinate with other browser vendors to evaluate the impact of this timeline based on telemetry and current projections for feasibility of SHA-1 collisions

How does "supplier" vs "vendor" impede your understanding there?

Because not all of the development teams, often run by volunteers, are vendors.

I'm confused; IE isn't sold for money either.

Now I'm confused, because I didn't ever imply that it was.

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