OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.
  • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Chromium is an open source project just fork it ffs… Also why wouldn’t Google just throw gemma into it? This is so dumb, proving that you don’t have to be smart to be a CEO just a cult leader

    Edit: The article more talks about how Google is being forced to sell off chrome. But then why would they maintain chromium? Wouldn’t that just mean the end of that project? Also I’m not saying Google should not be forced to sell it off. I think it’d be good overall

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      Chromium is a gigantic codebase that requires a team of experts to maintain, tests, and add features to. It’s far more complicated than just forking it. If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.

      • mina86@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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        2 months ago

        If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.

        People have done it. It’s called Edge, Opera, Vivaldi etc. And looking at it historically, Safari is a branch from the same tree as well.