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You’re still contributing to the Chromium engine monoculture, though.

• chenster 7y ago
  Guess we are dealing with purists here. Mind you that Chromium is free and open-source just like MySQL. A strategical move by the community to fork MySQL to MariaDB to ensure it remained free and open from the tech giant after it was acquired by Oracle. How Brave is any different? It made a similar move. Some people hate crypto. Fine. Personally I've never used the Brave crypto. Perhaps FF 70 has completely fixed its performance problem, sure, happy to switch. But before that really happens Brave is still a viable interim solution.
  • rovr138 7y ago
    The issue is the engine. There are few big engines out there and chromium is taking a lot of the market. The issue with this is that they could start controlling the standards and everyone would have to follow behind instead of everyone working and doing what’s best for consumers. While chromium is open source, that doesn’t mean they have to accept merges from the community. It only means that they have to provide the source code. Yes it can be forked, but now you have to maintain or develop your engine. If they’re the dominant ones and are setting standards, that won’t help much. By using another one you are helping keep a neutral ground. The difference between MySQL and MariaDB is that you have PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MSSQL among a bunch of others, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab... So the issue isn’t forking or not, but the fact that it’s still close enough that gives chromium the competitive edge and could kill the market.