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We don’t need to worry about web monoculture. Chrome is open source after all. Obviously sarcasm on my part, but I see this terrible (and false) argument every

We don’t need to worry about web monoculture. Chrome is open source after all. Obviously sarcasm on my part, but I see this terrible (and false) argument every time someone complains about the Chrome market share near-monopoly. You’d think people would know better by now. Edit: sarcasm made clearer.

a_imho 7y ago
I thought only Chromium was open source?
tomxor 7y ago
> We don’t need to worry about web monoculture. Chrome is open source after all. Chromium doesn't really have many of the benefits of other open source projects, it's a behemoth (have you ever tried a shallow clone and build from scratch?). Forking chrome is pointless unless you have an army behind you to maintain it. In that sense, chrome is chrome, and nothing more, it's proprietary by sheer volume. Anything based on it is usually little more than a chrome skin, or at best an out of date tracking branch that's been pulled apart and put back together again, e.g QtWebEngine which takes 6 months between releases just to pull apart the code to strip all offensive code and put back together again.
- Kudos 7y ago
  I agree it's not typical in terms of the scope of the project, but Microsoft literally just released a browser based on it, joining Opera, Brave, etc.
  - em-bee 7y ago
    they also have an army to maintain it
    - tomxor 7y ago
      and they don't even stray particularly far from chromium.