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Car manufacturers use parts (like engines) from other competitors all the time. I thought this could be similar with Mozilla, but I guess it was a silly thought
by dangwu 6y ago
Car manufacturers use parts (like engines) from other competitors all the time. I thought this could be similar with Mozilla, but I guess it was a silly thought.
- slig 6y agoIt'd be really hard to justify half billion dollars a year to just re-skin Chromium.
- dangwu 6y agoRight. They wouldn't need that much money. That's my point.
- jasonpeacock 6y agoTo follow that analogy, it'd be like BMW using an engine from Ford. Their whole selling point is the engines, and how they are different from other manufacturers. I'm sure there are many backend libraries, parsers, etc. that are used by both Chrome and Firefox, but they're unlikely to replace significant components like that.
- jasonpeacock 6y agoAnd to keep going...car manufacturers do use engines from other brands, but that's when they are owned by the same company. For example, you'll find Ford engines in Mazdas because Ford owned Mazda (or at least a chunk of it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda#Partnership_with_Ford_Motor_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda#Partnership_with_Ford_Mo...
- calvinmorrison 6y agoI own a Saab with a Ford engine! It's actually a V-4, two on each side, and it was most widely used to power skidsteers and industrial water pumps and the like. Saab didn't have the engineering capacity to design and launch a engine fast enough to keep up with environmental regulations (having used a two stroke engines up until the 60's!)
- dave5104 6y agoThe problem is that having most web browser options running on a rendering engine controlled by Google means that the web will simply end up looking and working like how Google wants it too.