On Saturday 2021-01-30 01:06, Robert Kaiser wrote:
Yes, the problem with Chromium (and all software based on it) is that it's what I call "throw-over-the-wall" software. It may be released under an open source license, but it is created inside Google and just released out there to give an impression of being nice and open while real community interaction is not appreciated.
Just as "open source" is not linguistically free/libre source (that point having been proven most recently by Elastic), open source does not necessarily mean open arms or open development. People need to stop adding more and more interpretations to the "open" in "open source" and developing (false) expectations from it.
Would have been great if the two companies that abandoned their own browser engines in the last years (Opera and Microsoft) would have opened up their code, as maybe that could have been the basis of good alternatives
Doubtful. When seemingly no one is encouraged to fork chromium or firefox and then work on that, why would you think anyone would even bother with a different browser base (one that is now even abandoned)?