Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed
Chromium is code that Mozilla is not familiar with and has a reputation for being poorly documented.
A fully divergent fork isn’t likely to make development any easier for Mozilla. And a soft fork puts them at the whims of Google’s development decisions. If Mozilla needs to pivot, joining with WebKit seems the more feasible option, though that would also likely be a battle to keep a Windows port maintained.
But they do have an interest in displacing Google’s monopoly, kinda like how they contribute to OpenStreetMaps with Apple Maps, or how Facebook finds llama.
Chromium is code that Mozilla is not familiar with and has a reputation for being poorly documented.
A fully divergent fork isn’t likely to make development any easier for Mozilla. And a soft fork puts them at the whims of Google’s development decisions. If Mozilla needs to pivot, joining with WebKit seems the more feasible option, though that would also likely be a battle to keep a Windows port maintained.
Apple could pitch in just for the sake of sticking it to Google.
Apple has the funds to maintain WebKit by themselves, and they wouldn’t want it to be cross-platform.
But they do have an interest in displacing Google’s monopoly, kinda like how they contribute to OpenStreetMaps with Apple Maps, or how Facebook finds llama.
Apple is already displacing Google’s monopoly.