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If all that is left is chromium, then you can kiss what is left of web standards good bye. Google will set the standard, taking input from any other tech playe
by loudtieblahblah 5y ago
If all that is left is chromium, then you can kiss what is left of web standards good bye. Google will set the standard, taking input from any other tech player big enough to have a seat at the table.
Its bad enough ISO certification boards and official positions of the W3C can be bought or corrupted. Let there be only one engine, controlled by Google? And even the pretense of a open and fair playing field goes away.
Open source and open protocols were not resistant enough to for profit corporations.
Now our standards are dwindling, open source projects and standards boards re completely co-opted, and the conversation on mailing lists and forums sounds like the never ending squabbling and finger wagging from your Fortune 500 HR department.
Foss and open standards have been captured by capital. And it shows in the culture.
Hell, it shows in the conversations around places like this.
- selfhoster11 5y agoExactly. This is why Mozilla, as the only credible custodian of the only credible Chromium/Blink/WebKit competitor, needs to wake up and die trying to stop that future, if needed. If they lose that war, there is no reason for them to exist over Brave or Vivaldi, for example.
- antupis 5y agoYeah we would get "IE6" from google not like first 2-4 years but soonish.
- nikau 5y agoDifference is Chrome source is available to fork if Google cross the line.
- dmitriid 5y ago> If all that is left is chromium, then you can kiss what is left of web standards good bye. Well, we've already done that. Google a) dominates the standards bodies and b) releases "standard" features that are only standard because Chrome says so