Comment by charcircuit
6 hours ago
Internet Explorer was not open source acting as engine everyone's browser could use and it got abandoned by Microsoft. It is not the same situation.
6 hours ago
Internet Explorer was not open source acting as engine everyone's browser could use and it got abandoned by Microsoft. It is not the same situation.
One could argue that effectively Blink is also not open source. At any rate users don't have power over it, as witnessed by the manifest v3 stuff jammed down our throats.
Churn makes it impossible to keep up a fork, Google weaponizes its manpower, making the "open source" argument moot.
There are many active forks that are an existence proof that it's possible. It's also a ton of man power to maintain your own browser engine.
Monocultures are bad full stop. Blink is corporate controlled open source, which has been clearly less than.