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Chromium is open source.
by quarterto 12y ago
Chromium is open source.
- kijin 12y agoI'm tired of hearing that argument. Chromium !== Chrome. Call me back when Chromium, not Chrome, wins a 20% share of the browser market.
- pekk 12y agoIt's an essentially identical browser. The main difference is the branding it ships with. The experience is very much the same.
- warcode 12y agoSadly, Chromium on windows has been nothing but an unstable mess for me.
- lern_too_spel 12y agoChrome is simply a packaging of Chromium with nonfree third-party plugins: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo... There is no such thing as Chromium browser, just packages of Chromium source built by different distributors like Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. You might ask to be called back when a particular packaging other than Chrome gets significant share, but if you ask when Chromium (including all packagings) gets significant share, that's already happened.
- kijin 12y agoThe whole point of the "Chrome is proprietary" argument is that we don't know exactly what Google added to Chromium. Since the diff between Chrome and Chromium is not open-source, there's no way to verify that Google only added what they claim to have added. For example, we wouldn't know if they slipped in an NSA backdoor along with a bunch of plugins. "Trust but Verify": https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/01/14/trust-but-verify-repost-of-article-on-security-value-of-open-source-software/ https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/01/14/trust-but-verify...