Comment by charcircuit
7 hours ago
Using Blink doesn't mean you have to defer all decisions to Google. You just benefit from not having to duplicate work.
7 hours ago
Using Blink doesn't mean you have to defer all decisions to Google. You just benefit from not having to duplicate work.
And you can't do what Google doesn't want you to do. That's a nice ad blocker you have there, shame if we removed support for it.
“The benefit of open source is that anyone can fork and modify the code!”
Yet somehow this argument seems to evaporate since people’s brains short circuit the moment they see the name Google.
The community can always fork and maintain a separate version of Chromium if necessary. Or does this concept only not apply to Chromium?
Brave literally ads an ad blocker into the browser itself. When you fork software you can do whatever you want to it.
Except one does since Google is the primary maintainer. Anyway, work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted.
It's easier maintaining a fork of Blink than an entirely different engine. Google being the primary maintainer doesn't mean that browsers can't make large forks.
>work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted.
How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work?