Re:To defend the free web, save Mozilla
by pcwalton on Saturday November 28, 2015 @04:47PM
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There have been companies that tried to commercialize rebranded Chromium: RockMelt comes to mind. They did not succeed.
The reason, to my mind, is simple: unless your underlying technology is better, there's little reason why users should choose your fork over the engine's official skin, which is always going to have better integration, will be first to get new features, gets security updates first, etc.
The reason, to my mind, is simple: unless your underlying technology is better, there's little reason why users should choose your fork over the engine's official skin, which is always going to have better integration, will be first to get new features, gets security updates first, etc.