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Do they really mean "Chrome" or do they mean "Chromium"? Because the latter is a really important and influential codebase, and the former is a proprietary, bra
by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Do they really mean "Chrome" or do they mean "Chromium"? Because the latter is a really important and influential codebase, and the former is a proprietary, branded "distro" of that codebase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_from_Google_Chrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differe...
So it would be weird if Google sold off Chrome, which specifically belongs to Google, and the main thing that makes Chrome Chrome is that it is Google's Chrome on top of the open-source Chromium codebase.
And if Google "owns" Chromium enough to "sell it off" then that new owner will enjoy leverage over even Microsoft themselves, as Edge is also Chromium-based. Not to mention, the Opera browser and many, many mainstream Linux distributions use Chromium directly, so ... that's kind of a big deal!