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What prevents literally anybody from continuing to support Chromium? Has Microsoft ran out of competent engineers?
by ddalex 3y ago
What prevents literally anybody from continuing to support Chromium? Has Microsoft ran out of competent engineers?
- mcny 3y agoMicrosoft is not and will never be the hero in any story. > What prevents literally anybody from continuing to support Chromium? Has Microsoft ran out of competent engineers? Remember that Microsoft failed at its promise of if we don't match Chrome bug for bug, that is a defect in Edge. They failed and they gave up trying. My personal conspiracy theory is that it costs well over a billion dollars a year, not including marketing dollars or bribery dollars, just to keep Chrome running. I don't think Google will pull the rug on Chromium but then again all bets are off if Google has new overlords or if Google isn't making that USD 200B+ revenue year over year. Things feel permanent probably right before giving up the ghost. I think if Microsoft felt like it could avoid using Chromium with its own stuff, it would have never touched Chromium. tl;Dr I doubt Microsoft will put in the money or energy it takes to maintain Chromium.
- foota 3y agoIf chromium were abandoned they wouldn't really have a choice, would they? I guess they could migrate edge to run on top of firefox, but I'm not sure if they'd want to. It's actually a little interesting, why did they choose Chromium in the first place over firefox, when Microsoft and Google are more directly competitors?