• ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

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

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        9 minutes ago

        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.[

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      3 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)