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> Or they could do what Brave, Vivaldi and others do and simply use Chromium as a base. Don't you even see the problem?! Even Microsoft dropped out from devel
by kaba0 2y ago
> Or they could do what Brave, Vivaldi and others do and simply use Chromium as a base.
Don't you even see the problem?!
Even Microsoft dropped out from developing a web browser, it literally has a larger scope than a whole OS.
But sure, enjoy your Chrome OS proprietary "open" web.
- dismalaf 2y agoAgain, how can it be a proprietary web if everything is open source and available to every other vendor? Not sure if you remember all the "native" applets that actually were proprietary before Chrome came on the scene and made JS fast enough to kill them... ActiveX, Flash, Java... Those were the dark ages, because of Google the web is more open and better than ever...
- kaba0 2y agoMore like there were actually multiple vendors that would have to agree on a common thing, but they died out so the single leftover can do whatever it wants...
- dismalaf 2y agoHere's a list of members of the W3C: https://www.w3.org/membership/list/ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/ It's a lot more than just Google...