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>It doesn't matter much when the engines involved are BSD license vs GPL Without a competing engine, Google is free to cease development on Chromium and start
by shadofx 5y ago
>It doesn't matter much when the engines involved are BSD license vs GPL
Without a competing engine, Google is free to cease development on Chromium and start a new private fork, and autoupdate all Chrome browsers to that new fork. Then they can add all sorts of web features that only they support. Every browser dependent on Chromium will fall behind in security updates and web features, and become more unusable than Firefox is today.
- roenxi 5y agoIf Google did that, we'd be better off with the Mozilla corporation taking over Chromium development than continuing to develop Gecko. The erosion of interest in Firefox over the years raises a pretty basic question: if Google followed through with that scenario, how effective would Firefox be? They're got steamrolled in the last decade with massive amounts of funding (from Google). Brave is literally showing that if someone wants to compete with Google, they're going to start with chromium as a base. Your argument is similar to "if someone wants to compete with Google, they need to be able to use Gecko/Webkit!". People with skin in the game are saying whatever the theoretical merits are to your argument, it is wrong. Gecko isn't part of the competitive equation any more.