Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”
Open source group aims to better organize and fund development of browser.
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"Google could be forced to sell Chrome" was the news in late november so I guess this a reaction to that.
I want Chrome to be sold, honestly.
I still don't get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.
I still don’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.
I could be wrong, but I think that (at least to some extent) the Linux Foundation exists to be the more corporate-friendly face of Free Software Open Source, as a reaction against/in opposition to the hard-line "end-user freedom" stance taken by GNU/the FSF. If that's accurate, it doesn't surprise me that it would take a soft position regarding Google's monopolistic practices. Especially since Google is a gold member of it.
Aren't a good portion of contributors to the Linux kernel also employees of the major FAANG companies?
This seems more a safeguard for if that happens, since Chromium project would be in jeopardy
they could easily have done this after the fact and avoided the current reality which Will be Google using Linux foundation funding to protect its monopoly of the ecosystem
So instead of proactively working to make sure it's not just Google contributing to Chromium (contributions that could go away if sold off), you think it would be better to just let the worst happen and then start doing something about it?
Do you realize how much modern web relies on Chromium and how much of that is done by Google currently? It's a terrible idea to have it the way it currently is and probably even worse if Chrome is sold.
Also the idea of widening the contributor base helping the monopoly is sorta backwards.
