I'm no fan of hostage-taking-via-license-and-naming-rights, but the underlying is bad: too many OSS maintainers are paid too little; Silicon Valley happily rides their wave while erasing them, one ahistorical product launch at a time.https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1067219073539473408 …
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I don't think any other company in the world would be willing to single-handedly sustain the on-going testing and maintaining costs for a project as large as Chromium, while *also* keeping it open source.
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And to be clear, it's not altruistic from Google. But early team member stuck to their desire to make it OSS and enforced it. There's a much needed alignment (occasionally tedious) between the project and the company, and to be blunt, perceived value to the shareholders.
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