Zero loyalties.
If Firefox did something similar, they’d be off my drive before I finished the article.
Chrome is a web browser created and maintained by an advertising company. This whole situation was never going to go any other way.
Firefox is equally doomed since so much of their current revenue comes from Google.
We have a foundation dedicated to the development of an entire kernel, but a web browser is a stretch.
(It indeed may be a stretch)
Who’s “we”, though? Here’s the list of Linux Foundation members: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members It’s a foundation by, and for, commercial interests; not the users. If the same interests made up a foundation to develop a browser, it wouldn’t be different from Chrome; because in the realm where browsers are supposed to work, those ‘commercial interests’ would demand doing what Chrome does.
It’s a ‘happy accident’ that with respect to a unix-like OS kernel, the interests of the industry ended up being compatible with the interests of the user.
I’m curious what would happen if chrome is split from googles core business. That won’t happen of course, because we live in hell, but it would be great.
When software betrays you, sever.
