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If the majority of the chromium engineers are Google employees, this seems like a distinction without a difference.
by t-writescode 4y ago
If the majority of the chromium engineers are Google employees, this seems like a distinction without a difference.
- Barrin92 4y agothe difference is that with open source software there is always the implicit threat to just fork the thing or discard what you don't want as say, Brave does. The Linux kernel is largely developed and sponsored by big tech and that has never offended anyone precisely for that reason. The optionality afforded by the fact that anyone can walk away limits what a bad actor can do, that's one of the biggest selling points of open source software.