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> It was actually a huge bummer for me when Edge gave in and switched to Chromium I don't get it.. that was the day that open source won the web. There are now
by px43 3y ago
> It was actually a huge bummer for me when Edge gave in and switched to Chromium
I don't get it.. that was the day that open source won the web. There are now no major closed source browser engines remaining. It was a massive indication that in the end, open source software will always win in any market. We just needed Google to dump in billions of dollars to help accelerate the process, but they did that, and now we're all better off for it.
Now we just need Windows, OSX, and iOS to die out, and the whole world will be running on open source software.
- xibo9 3y agoHard pass. Monocultures are bad.
- px43 3y agoWhat monoculture? There is an incredibly rich ecosystem of Chromium forks, all playing with different ideas for how the web should work. There's a nice, clean, stable base for people to work with, and extend upon. This seems like the ideal scenario.
- theallan 3y agoI think the GP is more disappointed that Microsoft choose to use Blink rather than Gecko as their rendering engine. Not that they abandoned the closed source EdgeHTML.
- ragnese 3y agoFree software and open source software are great. But, web pages are "you get what we serve". So, if there's a hostile standard that web pages all start using, having an open source implementation of the thing working against you is a very small consolation...
- cxr 3y ago> I don't get it.. that was the day that open source won the web. There are now no major closed source browser engines remaining. Microsoft announcing an open source "Edge Core" (cf .NET Core, ChakraCore) would have satisfied the same criterion.