Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google

Re:Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar... by bzbarsky on Friday November 01, 2013 @10:16AM (#6653866)

Chrome is not in fact open-source.

Chromium is open-source, but lacks various functionality Chrome has (e.g. the PDF reader, and soon I expect playback of Netflix videos, since I doubt Google will be open-sourcing their CDM). Chromium is also supporting Flash via NPAPI, not Pepper, which Google is planning to kill off.

ChromeOS has similar issues with Netflix, at the very least: the open-source parts can't do it.

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Re:Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar... by bad_user on Friday November 01, 2013 @10:47AM (#6654088)

Well, that's true. But then when companies like Mozilla try to fight proprietary stuff like H.264 or DRM (because duh, these are incompatible with open-source), people start bitching about it. And that's why we can't have nice things, because some people suck.

You forgot about the Google Talk plugin, which was something that was upsetting me personally, but hopefully they'll fulfil their promise of moving to Web RTC.

Note - I'm actually a Firefox user, because when Mozilla wants to improve the state of PDF rendering, they do it in such a way that everybody benefits, i.e. https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

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