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Re:We Need Chrome No More by llampx on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:00PM (#19266879)
If there's one thing that Google does well, it's convince the relevant people that their software is open source.

See: Chrome and Android

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by jhasse on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @07:14PM (#19268055)
They are though. There are no Edge forks or free iOS distributions.
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Re:We Need Chrome No More by stephenr on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @08:03PM (#19268243)
No, they’re not. They’re based on open source software.

But by that measure safari is open source because WebKit is open source.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by jhasse on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:33AM (#19269663)
> But by that measure safari is open source because WebKit is open source.

There's a lot more closed source code in Safari than there's in Chrome. But sure: Why not give them credit for open-sourcing WebKit? Safari is closer to open-source than IE.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by stephenr on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:04AM (#19269802)
And yet I trust Safari a fucking lot more than I trust Chrome. Something about not being a business reliant on harvesting every bit of personal information possible.
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Re:We Need Chrome No More by jhasse on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:07AM (#19270057)
And you're probably right. "Open-source-ness" shouldn't be the only measure when valuing software.
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