Re:Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me”
by thezilch on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @01:59AM
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While Chromium is open source, Chrome is not and could certainly "hide" away such features, but you're right to say that a more-private fork could / would be close behind.
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Re:Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me”
by akshayubhat on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @03:34AM
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Thanks, I didn't knew that, It seems to be like Android model, where they open source it few weeks after public disclosure of features.
Re:Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me”
by ithkuil on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @06:05AM
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I use the daily build of chromium on my ubuntu linux.
I'm pretty sure that it's the main line of development and I regularly receive new features, new bugs and new bug fixes as days passes. After some time all this goes to the chrome beta and finally in the chrome release.
I don't think that google adds tons of code 'behind' the back of the opensource repository which is then merged only a few weeks later, because I see a gradual change (aka. the phenotype of those changes) in the daily builds from the chromium repository.