What's the deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at odds with package maintainers

Re:What's the deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at odds wi... by tracker1 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:06PM (#25934698)

More likely it's to keep down the likes of Brave and Opera than Chromium on Linux/BSD, which are probably barely a blip by comparison.

If MS were smart, they'd open up their alternatives to the Chromium community. They've done such a good job at building goodwill the past few years, and would be a nice gesture.

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Re:What's the deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at odds wi... by eesmith on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:13PM (#25935470)

FWIW, the thread at https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/embedder-dev/c/NX... says:

> The Brave project has built a Sync server for their Chromium-based Brave browser: https://github.com/brave/go-sync and it is open source but uses Amazon Cloud for their database backend storage.

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Re:What's the deal with Chromium on Linux? Google at odds wi... by tracker1 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:56PM (#25935920)

Cool... thanks, wasn't aware of this... guessing Opera may have done the same... in which case Google are just being kind of a-holes about it.

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