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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by OGinparadise on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:25PM (#5489665)
Yes, and I suspect that Firefox is, at least, not going to work against the way it makes its money (ads) but the alternative browsers have bigger conflicts of interest.
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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by laumars on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @07:21PM (#5489960)
Opera?

Plus with their switch to Blink on the horizon, even the old complaints about rendering compatibility are soon to be moot.

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by myko on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @09:50PM (#5490482)
> Duh! Chrome, Youtube, Maps, Android and virtually everything serve Google's $$$$ making efforts.

Following the above logic wouldn't Opera not fit the bill either, considering it serves only to make money for Opera?

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by laumars on Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:30AM (#5491296)
If Opera was non-free or pushed Opera owned services, then I would agree. But they don't.

In fact, how does Opera generate income?

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by OGinparadise on Thursday April 04, 2013 @04:12AM (#5491550)
Probably by Google alone http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-search-deal-for-two...

Google has bought placement on all non-MS major browsers and portals.

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by Apocryphon on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:29PM (#5489691)
It's interesting to see open-source foundations get corporate patrons. Like Ubuntu's relation with Amazon.
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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by laumars on Thursday April 04, 2013 @06:32AM (#5491854)
That's always been the case. (Linux < IBM, Oracle, Redhat. FreeBSD has corporate sponsors and so on).

For any project to succeed, it's going to need some kind of funding. And often that means turning to big businesses, who have deeper pockets than all of us little people combined.

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