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morto@piefed.social 2 months ago
This teaches us that being open source is not enough. If it’s managed by big tech, it’s still not good. Technically, anyone can take the source and make a fork, but in practice, it’s rarely viable for smaller groups to take a big project and start maintaining it. The same applies to android
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 months ago Excellent point. The way a project is governed should always be a consideration when evaluating software, especially for large and complex projects like a web browser that can’t easily be forked.
In the case of chromium, basically all the main developers are Google employees … so it’s no surprise there hasn’t been a viable fork.
I really wish we had something like the “linux kernel” of web browsers…
Chrome isn’t even opensource. It’s based on the Chromium open-source project.
Wrt all Google/Alphabet products: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/