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Closed source is a boolean. Chrome is distributed only as a binary. I.e. it is totally closed source. It currently has a very large relation to the open source
by asfdsfggtfd 9y ago
Closed source is a boolean. Chrome is distributed only as a binary. I.e. it is totally closed source.
It currently has a very large relation to the open source Chromium project. But Google could change that tomorrow if they wanted to - they could also gradually move more and more to their closed source Chrome builds (as they have done with Android).
- PatentTroll 9y agoAre there any viable chromium based open source browsers out there that have consistent updates?
- solidr53 9y agoYes, Brave [0] and Irdium [1]. [0] https://www.brave.com/ https://www.brave.com/ [1] https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://iridiumbrowser.de/
- rmurri 9y agohttps://vivaldi.com https://vivaldi.com
- zastrowm 9y agoMy understanding was that vivaldi wasn't completely open source either. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/54kzpc/psa_vivaldi_is_not_open_source_most_of_you/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/54kzpc/psa_...
- scholia 9y agoVivaldi isn't open source but you can read the source code, which is better than nothing.... There is some debate inside Vivaldi about making it open source and it would be easy enough to do. I'd guess that it probably doesn't make economic sense while it has such a small market share, but I don't know if that's true.
- jhasse 9y ago> Closed source is a boolean. I disagree. There's a difference between having 99% of the source available and 0%.