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Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They should make it open source

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Well, it mostly already is. The Chromium project is essentially everything Chrome already has, except Chrome contains a few proprietary components (IIRC the tracking is proprietary)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wished I got a nickel every time someone argues Chrome should be open source, only to find out it always has been

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Per Wikipedia

Most of Chrome's source code comes from Google's free and open-source software project Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware.[15] WebKit was the original rendering engine, but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine;[18] all Chrome variants except iOS used Blink as of 2017.[

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Open source =/= FOSS, yes it's licensed as proprietary, but you can compile Chromium from scratch and the only drawback is Google's backup server not letting you connect. Other than that, the browser is identical...