I feel like you may have forgotten Firefox's role in history. Firefox unambiguously saved the world from Microsoft taking control of the web.
Not to mention that Chromium is a free sofware project. It doesn't matter that the largest contributor is Google (it does for the top-level discussion of why the hell did Chromium implement this), the project itself is free software and is thus part of the free software community.
I feel like you may have forgotten Firefox's role in history. Firefox unambiguously saved the world from Microsoft taking control of the web.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I don't see how that's relevant to "bigcorps piggybacking on the work by the free software community". I'm pretty sure media corps would be fine with an IE world.
Not to mention that Chromium is a free sofware project. It doesn't matter that the largest contributor is Google (it does for the top-level discussion of why the hell did Chromium implement this), the project itself is free software and is thus part of the free software community.
Chromium is developed by the work paid by bigcorps, not by the free software community. The code being open source doesn't change this.
> I'm pretty sure media corps would be fine with an IE world.
But that's not the world we live in. We live in a world where Firefox saved the web, Chrom{e,ium} has changed it as well (though they have done plenty of things I think are horrible). In _that world_, they are trying to piggyback off the current state of the web's open standards by adding extensions that will only work because the same browsers that made the web what it is today are now forced to implement EME.
> Chromium is developed by the work paid by bigcorps, not by the free software community. The code being open source doesn't change this.
By that logic, Linux is not developed by the free software community (80% of kernel development is done by developers paid by companies -- which I think is great).
What work of the free software community? Except for Firefox, all browsers with any market share are developed by big corporations.