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> Money That's incredibly vague. Can you explain? How are the many forks/variants of Chromium and WebKit not affected by this "money" factor in the same way
by stapled_socks 5y ago
> Money
That's incredibly vague. Can you explain?
How are the many forks/variants of Chromium and WebKit not affected by this "money" factor in the same way
- ajvs 5y agoGoogle, Microsoft, Apple and Brave, are some of the corporations who fund Chromium/WebKit-based browsers. The ones who fund Firefox (Gecko)-based browsers do not have nearly enough money to dedicate to their own fork.
- masklinn 5y agoMoney in the terms of resources. Browsers are huge and complex codebases so maintaining one (even if "just" a fork) is quite expensive. > How are the many forks/variants of Chromium and WebKit not affected by this "money" factor in the same way They are, but the main Webkit/Chromium forks are either large companies (microsoft) or companies trying to make money off of their forks (Brave, Vivaldi). This here is trying to do the exact opposite. Vivaldi has ~50 employees, Brave has 150 and tens of millions in investments. Even if not all of them work on the fork management, that's a lot more resources than a dozen peeps doing that in their spare time.