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In what market relevant to this issue does Google have a monopoly?
> to take the tech, clone, tweak, and then don't contribute back.
Its all open source, so it is contributed back. Google just isn't constrained to not change things that WebKit users rely on in future Blink work.
> A "fork you" to apple that would make the web suffer.
WebKit and Chromium both being more free to try different solutions isn't going to make the web suffer, its going to make the web better.
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In what market relevant to this issue does Google have a monopoly?
> to take the tech, clone, tweak, and then don't contribute back.
Its all open source, so it is contributed back. Google just isn't constrained to not change things that WebKit users rely on in future Blink work.
> A "fork you" to apple that would make the web suffer.
WebKit and Chromium both being more free to try different solutions isn't going to make the web suffer, its going to make the web better.