The goalposts haven’t moved, it’s always been bad for a single company to have critical public infrastructure like the web to themselves. The conflict of intere

The goalposts haven’t moved, it’s always been bad for a single company to have critical public infrastructure like the web to themselves. The conflict of interest that results is huge. Manpower matters because no matter how much Chromium/Blink are forked, forks can’t be meaningfully different because they have to keep up with the firehose of changes Google is pumping out, which also makes it progressively more difficult to keep parts of the codebase that have diverged up to date. It’s a losing battle unless you’ve also got a dev team with the size and scope of Google’s Chrome team, which is a ridiculously high bar. Even your cited examples of Edge and Brave are only superficially different, with a handful of features switched off compared to Chrome. They bring practically no diversity to the web. > So now all open source software needs to be developed equally by purely non-profit orgs? No, this is a special case. Web browsers are critical public infrastructure that’ve been on the precipice of total monopoly multiple times now.