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A comment on Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web. Parent comment

Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by Jonnax on Sunday November 17, 2019 @06:24AM (#21557465)
The point of opensource is to follow along with the leader?
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by The_rationalist on Sunday November 17, 2019 @07:41AM (#21557685)
It is to make synergies through code sharing. Let's fork the Linux kernel into a redundant implementation and take half kernel developers in order to slow down progress by a factor of two.
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by Jonnax on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:32AM (#21558328)
That's a bad comparison.

They're not forks. Firefox's is a separate implementation. The equivalent would be asking BSD to merge with Linux.

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by saagarjha on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:28AM (#21557833)
I suggest you take a look at Blink’s history ;)
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