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Sorry which is which? Because right now Chrome engine has more control of the web then IE did in it's heyday when Microsoft was ruled to be a monopoly.
by konjin 6y ago
Sorry which is which? Because right now Chrome engine has more control of the web then IE did in it's heyday when Microsoft was ruled to be a monopoly.
- vntok 6y agoAre you aware that Blink, Webkit and V8 are all open source?
- pjmlp 6y agoWith most people working out of Apple, Microsoft and Google salaries, good luck getting a bunch of random weekend coders to pick up and counterattack an alternative browser based on that open source.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoDoesn't this depend how high we set the bar? The ungoogled-chromium project [0] presumably doesn't take all that much manpower as it's just taking Chromium and paring it down a little. A true alternative browser codebase like Firefox, with its own rendering engine and JavaScript engine, takes a great deal of effort, of course. [0] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
- pjmlp 6y agoDepends, check the recent stories about X.org being abandonware, yet it is open source.
- modeless 6y agoSorry, that's just wrong. Non-IE browsers had less than 5% market share at its peak. Non-Chrome browsers have more than 6 times that (~30%). And web standards are developed much more collaboratively these days, with less unilateral action.
- cageface 6y agoThe current situation isn't ideal but I can still build apps and reach users without the permission of any company's review board. There's a big difference between controlling technology and controlling content.