Google Chromium, Chromeplus and Iron Browser: Why Source code and Distribution Models Matter
19. Januar 2011
The internet has been awash with the fallout from Oracle’s stewardship of OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu’s announcement that Xorg would be replaced by Wayland and Unity would be the next desktop. The F-word was used. A lot. No, not that F-word. The other F-word. Forking. OpenOffice.org has already forked to LibreOffice and I’ve no doubt that Unity haters will fork off to Gnome Shell 3. Fair enough. It’s all about choice in the end and choice creates competition and competition often creates innovation and cross fertilization (as well as fragmentation). You need look no further than Google’s Chromium browser to see how a project benefits from the protection of open source licences, available source code, collaboration and the capacity to accelerate development. This article is about that and a brief progress report on how far Chromium has come since I first wrote about it.
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