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> Create an absolute monopoly on browsers. Your premise is broken. How is this even possible in an open source ecosystem? Chrome was built to be forked, and th
by px43 3y ago
> Create an absolute monopoly on browsers.
Your premise is broken. How is this even possible in an open source ecosystem? Chrome was built to be forked, and there are several healthy forks that are thriving. There is zero chance of there being a browser monopoly any time soon. Basically every proprietary browser is now dead.
- ryukoposting 3y agoWhether or not the browser is open-source has no impact on this issue. The monopoly would not exist because Google/Apple/whoever are the only people allowed to make browsers. Google would simply have the power to make all of its services (search, docs, etc) totally unusable on any browser that isn't a version of Chrome compiled and distributed by them, thus making all other browsers useless to the vast majority of the population. Because analytics data is money, other companies would have financial incentive to follow suit. By the way, Chrome contains proprietary code. Chrome and Chromium are not identical.