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yeah in a perfect world google dictates how the standard will evolve, we kill all competition so we're sure that you have only one target to build your software

by Oxodao 9d ago

yeah in a perfect world google dictates how the standard will evolve, we kill all competition so we're sure that you have only one target to build your software against, I'm sure a monopoly will greatly improves innovation and not be used to stiffen competition. /s

charcircuit 9d ago
Using Blink doesn't mean you have to defer all decisions to Google. You just benefit from not having to duplicate work.
- samus 9d ago
  Except one does since Google is the primary maintainer. Anyway, work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted.
  - charcircuit 9d ago
    It's easier maintaining a fork of Blink than an entirely different engine. Google being the primary maintainer doesn't mean that browsers can't make large forks. >work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted. How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work?
    - samus 8d ago
      > It's easier maintaining a fork of Blink than an entirely different engine. Google being the primary maintainer doesn't mean that browsers can't make large forks. Maintaining a fork is not fun as taking patches from the origin repo becomes more complicated the longer the fork exists and the bigger the divergence becomes. > How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work? It would be duplicated only if they all maintained, say, a Blink fork.
- kryptiskt 9d ago
  And you can't do what Google doesn't want you to do. That's a nice ad blocker you have there, shame if we removed support for it.
  - charcircuit 9d ago
    Brave literally ads an ad blocker into the browser itself. When you fork software you can do whatever you want to it.
  - armadyl 9d ago
    “The benefit of open source is that anyone can fork and modify the code!” Yet somehow this argument seems to evaporate since people’s brains short circuit the moment they see the name Google. The community can always fork and maintain a separate version of Chromium if necessary. Or does this concept only not apply to Chromium?

by Oxodao 9d ago

charcircuit 9d ago

Using Blink doesn't mean you have to defer all decisions to Google. You just benefit from not having to duplicate work.

samus 9d ago
Except one does since Google is the primary maintainer. Anyway, work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted.
- charcircuit 9d ago
  It's easier maintaining a fork of Blink than an entirely different engine. Google being the primary maintainer doesn't mean that browsers can't make large forks. >work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted. How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work?
  - samus 8d ago
    > It's easier maintaining a fork of Blink than an entirely different engine. Google being the primary maintainer doesn't mean that browsers can't make large forks. Maintaining a fork is not fun as taking patches from the origin repo becomes more complicated the longer the fork exists and the bigger the divergence becomes. > How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work? It would be duplicated only if they all maintained, say, a Blink fork.
kryptiskt 9d ago
And you can't do what Google doesn't want you to do. That's a nice ad blocker you have there, shame if we removed support for it.
- charcircuit 9d ago
  Brave literally ads an ad blocker into the browser itself. When you fork software you can do whatever you want to it.
- armadyl 9d ago
  “The benefit of open source is that anyone can fork and modify the code!” Yet somehow this argument seems to evaporate since people’s brains short circuit the moment they see the name Google. The community can always fork and maintain a separate version of Chromium if necessary. Or does this concept only not apply to Chromium?