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Is chromium hostile towards non Google contributions? It's not clear to me why a community of many parties couldn't form and prevent this possibility. From what
by surajrmal 3y ago
Is chromium hostile towards non Google contributions? It's not clear to me why a community of many parties couldn't form and prevent this possibility. From what I can tell, the problem is largely a lack of companies who want to participate in chromium development.
- fabrice_d 3y agoThis article from Igalia describe pretty well the situation around contribution to gecko/webkit/blink : https://bkardell.com/blog/2023-Mid-Season-Power-Rankings.html https://bkardell.com/blog/2023-Mid-Season-Power-Rankings.htm... Very interesting read!
- mrguyorama 3y agoIf the chromium community are unable to write their own browsing engine, then they are shackled to whatever google implements. When WEI turns out to be so intertwined with deep functionality that you can't really excise it, what are these so called "alternatives" going to do, just not update the chromium codebase ever?
- The_Colonel 3y agoThat depends if you contribution is conforming with google's strategy / vision. Very likely google is going to be hostile to the future contribution to re-enable extension manifest v2.