Yet Chromium's Blink engine is a fork of WebCore from WebKit and it's still open source. (LGPL and BSD Licenses)
It gets contributions from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Opera Software, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Samsung, etc... It is not controlled by one company.
So, not nearly the "browser monopoly" as it was with Internet Explorer at the time.
Blink didn't become a "monopoly" because of pressure from Google... as it was pressure from Microsoft with IE. It became widely adopted because it's actually the superior engine.
I hope you're not trying to drawl parallels with what happened with Microsoft by calling it a "Chromium monopoly." I'd argue it'd be disingenuous to do so.
If the only thing keeping Apple's spin of Webkit alive is its own anti-consumer practices of keeping it as the only option within its own walled garden, that's hardly a statement of confidence for the engine itself. Perhaps it should die.
> If the only thing keeping Apple's spin of Webkit alive is its own anti-consumer practices of keeping it as the only option within its own walled garden, that's hardly a statement of confidence for the engine itself. Perhaps it should die.
I like Safari because it uses less power and my battery lasts far longer than when using Chrome. Google’s software in general eats up a lot of battery.
It gets contributions from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Opera Software, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Samsung, etc... It is not controlled by one company.
So, not nearly the "browser monopoly" as it was with Internet Explorer at the time.
Blink didn't become a "monopoly" because of pressure from Google... as it was pressure from Microsoft with IE. It became widely adopted because it's actually the superior engine.
I hope you're not trying to drawl parallels with what happened with Microsoft by calling it a "Chromium monopoly." I'd argue it'd be disingenuous to do so.
If the only thing keeping Apple's spin of Webkit alive is its own anti-consumer practices of keeping it as the only option within its own walled garden, that's hardly a statement of confidence for the engine itself. Perhaps it should die.