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Graphene uses the Google codebase, so Google is choosing its long-term development strategy and standards it will support. It's like choosing Chromium to escape
by fsflover 11mo ago
Graphene uses the Google codebase, so Google is choosing its long-term development strategy and standards it will support. It's like choosing Chromium to escape Chrome.
- DANmode 11mo agoNot the worst choices!
- fsflover 11mo agoIndeed. However, in terms of the independence, better choices exist.
- charcircuit 11mo agoIf someone is making a new browser, considering you want to support the same web standards as everyone else, being independent is pretty low on the priority lists. In fact it is more of a liability since it could make for compatibility issues.
- fsflover 11mo agoI don't understand what you're talking about. Firefox supports all reasonable standards and so does GNU/Linux.
- charcircuit 11mo agoThe same can be said about the Linux codebase. Tomorrow Linus could private his branch and stop supporting public releases. If AOSP goes closed source then people can fork it and continue to maintain it.
- fsflover 11mo agoLinus is not known for decisions hostile to the users. Google is.
- kahnclusions 11mo agoLinux doesn’t really rely on Linus for coding anymore…
- gf000 11mo agoIt does on Intel, AMD and a bunch of other huge corps though
- akdev1l 11mo agoThe Linux kernel cannot be relicensed. Linus does not hold copyright to most code.