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Interesting question. I know there is a lot of links between the core Windows OS and IE, so there would be certain parts that would need to be kept open source.
by tiernano 12y ago
Interesting question. I know there is a lot of links between the core Windows OS and IE, so there would be certain parts that would need to be kept open source. Mind you, Chrome has the same issue (Chrome is not open source, Chromium is, which Chrome is based on.) Some parts of Chrome are closed and possibly not even owned by Google (Flash is one i can think of).
- mahouse 12y agoThis is the -rather interesting, if you ask me- list of differences between Chrome and Chromium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29#Differences_from_Google_Chrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29#Dif... I see it lacks a mention to the embedded PDF reader which, if I remember correctly, is licensed from Foxit.
- justinschuh 12y agoWhile you are correct that the PDF rendering code originally came from Foxit, Google purchased it and open-sourced it a while ago. So, it's included in Chromium and the project is hosted here: https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/ https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/