Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a...
by MrDrMcCoy on Thursday August 15, 2024 @07:35PM
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I'm a bit more hopeful about Mozilla. I think there would be a collapse of the business without the Google cash flow, but expect the browser itself would be continued by the community for its importance.
Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a...
by shadowgovt on Friday August 16, 2024 @12:05PM
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I have about as much faith in the open source community maintaining a machine as complicated as a full browser without significant corporate backing as I have in OpenOffice displacing Microsoft Office in my lifetime, but hope springs eternal.
Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a...
by MrDrMcCoy on Friday August 16, 2024 @09:19PM
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Consider that KHTML, the grandfather of just about every modern engine that isn't Gecko, was a fairly small open source project. Ladybird is open source and surprisingly usable for its youth and single developer.
Speaking from personal experience, I write my best code when I'm frustrated by the absence of something I need. I'm sure many others here are the same way. If a sufficient fire is lit under the community to make the web continue to work in the absence of the old guard, I'm pretty sure it'll happen.
So I think we can cross that off the list as well and conclude that in the short to medium term, if Chrome went away it would mean simple web hegemony for Apple.