> Anyone can take the Chromium web engine and build their own browser on top, with tremendous amounts of control. No. There's no "tremendous amount of control"

> Anyone can take the Chromium web engine and build their own browser on top, with tremendous amounts of control. No. There's no "tremendous amount of control". You're still ~100% reliant on Chrome to produce all the features. > where someone pulls out the Gecko rendering engine and builds an open source product/business on top of it. What would be that business? Browsers are free. On top of that: you've ripped out the rendering engine. Now what? You still have to update it, and develop it, and keep up with the rest of the industry.