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Are you aware that Blink, Webkit and V8 are all open source?

• pjmlp 6y ago
  With 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 ago
    Doesn'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 ago
      Depends, check the recent stories about X.org being abandonware, yet it is open source.