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Ah, you must be too young to have experienced early Internet Explorer, which attempted just this.
by teekert 15d ago
Ah, you must be too young to have experienced early Internet Explorer, which attempted just this.
- charcircuit 15d agoInternet Explorer was not open source acting as engine everyone's browser could use and it got abandoned by Microsoft. It is not the same situation.
- teekert 15d agoOne could argue that effectively Blink is also not open source. At any rate users don't have power over it, as witnessed by the manifest v3 stuff jammed down our throats.
- pygy_ 15d agoChurn makes it impossible to keep up a fork, Google weaponizes its manpower, making the "open source" argument moot.
- charcircuit 15d agoThere are many active forks that are an existence proof that it's possible. It's also a ton of man power to maintain your own browser engine.
- le-mark 15d agoMonocultures are bad full stop. Blink is corporate controlled open source, which has been clearly less than.
- mohamedkoubaa 14d agoAt this point Microsoft should just open source it for science.