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People can fork Google Chrome, yet none has done this so far. Not counting pretty GUI or some integrated extensions as a fork really. Google Chromium is genius
by Yizahi 3y ago
People can fork Google Chrome, yet none has done this so far. Not counting pretty GUI or some integrated extensions as a fork really. Google Chromium is genius marketing idea, hats off to the people who invented it, they convinced even programmers that there is some mythical "independent" Chromium project and anyone can fork it. Well, theoretically it is possible, but practically - not so much. The strategy is so successful that not even anti-monopoly departments aren't that interested in it.
- robertlagrant 3y agoGiven Edge, Brave, Opera, Silk, Arc, Vivaldi, etc[0], are all built on Chromium, are you sure? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Active https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Active
- Yizahi 3y agoThey are built on Chrome. Chromium is a shim, a pseudo-independent Chrome copy with some small changes, to pretend that there is no Chrome monopoly.
- robertlagrant 3y agoCan you cite how you know this?
- Yizahi 3y agoEasy check - does Chromium project makes independent decisions and diverges from the decisions Chrome makes? Meaning, is it a true fork (disregarding who was first/original for a second) or not? So far it seems that everything Google pushes happens both in Chrome and Chromium. I mean significant decisions, like protocol support, rendering, etc. Sure, they cut out their spyware from it, just to please anti-monopoly organizations, but that's about all. Chromium is a puppet entity, existing only for Google's sake.