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Re:Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration by bad_user on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:09PM (#18620499)
> "1. If Google opts to steer Chromium in a way that the community finds objectionable, could the community stop it?"

The answer to that is obvious. Of course not.

Google owns Chromium's repository. Even if the "community" decides to fork Chromium, Google owns Chrome, so any fork of Chromium is completely irrelevant. That's because people download and install Chrome and not obscure Chromium forks.

And that is why web standards are important ;-)

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Re:Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration by VoxPelli on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:18PM (#18620574)
“Obscure Chromium forks” – like Samsung Internet and Edge?

Remember: Chromium itself is an “obscure fork” of WebKit...

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Re:Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration by bad_user on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:27PM (#18620658)
>> "“Obscure Chromium forks” – like Samsung Internet and Edge?"

Yes, exactly like those two.

>> "Remember: Chromium itself is an “obscure fork” of WebKit..."

Actually when Google forked WebKit, Chrome wasn't obscure at all. But yes, that's the perfect proof that Google doesn't want to cooperate when they aren't pulling the strings.

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Re:Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration by ash_gti on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:29PM (#18620674)
Don't forget Opera is a re-skinned Chrome.
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Re:Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration by bad_user on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:37PM (#18620750)
Right, at which point Opera too became completely irrelevant.

First they switched their engine to Blink, then predictably after 3 years sold out to an obscure Chinese private equity fund.

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Re:Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration by gsnedders on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:53PM (#18622109)
I mean it's re-skinned in the same way as Samsung Internet and I believe Edge will be: a totally different browser UI implementation around the same browser engine.
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Re:Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration by VoxPelli on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:24PM (#18622985)
Samsung Internet has their own implementations of quite a few web standards - calling it a reskin isn’t very accurate
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