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Does this criticism also apply to the Linux kernel? Which is as widely used as Chrome on servers?
by 323 5y ago
Does this criticism also apply to the Linux kernel? Which is as widely used as Chrome on servers?
- samwillis 5y agoThere are other OSs available though. Including other POSIX compliant OSs
- addicted 5y agoThere's at least Windows, macOS, FreeBSD as popular and fairly used alternatives. Also, the Linux kernel itself is just one small part of a Linux distro, which means everyone from kernel maintainers, to distro creators/maintainers, to particular app makers have some direct to indirect sway on the kernel development.
- 323 5y agoYou could say the same about WebKit, that it's just a small part of a browser - Chrome/Safari/Edge/Brave/...
- moron4hire 5y agoNote that Chromium hasn't been based on WebKit for almost a decade. Google forked WebKit and created Blink as their rendering engine in 2013. The two have diverged quite a bit. Safari is the only major browser still based on WebKit explicitly. Chrome, Edge, Brave, Samsung Internet, etc., are all based on Chromium and thus have Blink as their rendering engine.