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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by px43 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:54AM (#36876846)
> Google's open source projects are open in name only.

The link at the top of the page is pointing to the GitHub repo, where you can see literally over a million contributions from thousands of people working at hundreds of companies: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commits/main

I've worked on both Chrome and Android (Chromium and AOSP) professionally, and never worked at Google.

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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:09AM (#36877050)
There is the OSS vs FOSS distinction which may have been unwittingly invoked. Certainly there is nothing “free” about Chromium except its price. Google is not about to switch to a fork for Chrome and any changes to Chromium which are not approved by Google are unlikely to be in any release builds.
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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by jsjohnst on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:08AM (#36877040)
You and GP both can be right depending on definition used for “open source”.
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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by troupo on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:20AM (#36877204)
Well, true :)

What I should've written is that: yes, they are open source, but there's no way to influence the direction they are going. These projects are 100% Google-run, and very few (if any) decisions are public.

For most projects there's also a significant proprietary part in the actual final product

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