OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.
  • @[email protected]English
    5•8 days 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 ☆OP
      2•8 days 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•8 days ago

        I mean a majority of chromium PRs are from Google. So yes, but youd think it would be easier for whoever bought it or OpenAI to do that with their money printing machines

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
          1•8 days ago

          Naturally, but if OpenAI takes Chrome in an even worse direction than Google, it’s going to be a huge challenge to make a sustainable fork of it that’s governed by the community.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•8 days ago

            Hot take here: community browsers shouldn’t be based on chromium due to googles monopoly, manifest v3 being a big sign.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
                  1•8 days ago

                  Same, it seems like there needs to be a new foundation that’s specifically focused on Firefox and nothing else. The problem with Mozilla is that they keep trying to do all kinds of stuff instead of just focusing on making a good browser.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•8 days 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.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
          1•8 days ago

          These are products maintained by companies with a lot of funding behind them. I’m talking about a community effort to continue developing Chromium if it continues to become shittier.

          edit: I’m referring to community forks of Chromium here