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> "1. If Google opts to steer Chromium in a way that the community finds objectionable, could the community stop it?" The answer to that is obvious. Of course
by bad_user 8y ago
> "1. If Google opts to steer Chromium in a way that the community finds objectionable, could the community stop it?"
The answer to that is obvious. Of course not.
Google owns Chromium's repository. Even if the "community" decides to fork Chromium, Google owns Chrome, so any fork of Chromium is completely irrelevant. That's because people download and install Chrome and not obscure Chromium forks.
And that is why web standards are important ;-)
- VoxPelli 8y ago“Obscure Chromium forks” – like Samsung Internet and Edge? Remember: Chromium itself is an “obscure fork” of WebKit...
- bad_user 8y ago>> "“Obscure Chromium forks” – like Samsung Internet and Edge?" Yes, exactly like those two. >> "Remember: Chromium itself is an “obscure fork” of WebKit..." Actually when Google forked WebKit, Chrome wasn't obscure at all. But yes, that's the perfect proof that Google doesn't want to cooperate when they aren't pulling the strings.
- ash_gti 8y agoDon't forget Opera is a re-skinned Chrome.
- bad_user 8y agoRight, at which point Opera too became completely irrelevant. First they switched their engine to Blink, then predictably after 3 years sold out to an obscure Chinese private equity fund.
- gsnedders 8y agoI mean it's re-skinned in the same way as Samsung Internet and I believe Edge will be: a totally different browser UI implementation around the same browser engine.
- VoxPelli 8y agoSamsung Internet has their own implementations of quite a few web standards - calling it a reskin isn’t very accurate