Chrome comes from Safari that comes from KHTML, the original KDE web browser. No open source means no Chrome.
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BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 2 weeks agoWell Google contributes a lot to open source, but I get your point.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Korkki@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
They mostly do that because they want control and maybe slowly reach their tentacles into projects. Like Chromium and Android are in theory open source, but in practice both are locked down by google and used for their business and mass data harvesting and advertising empire.