How many of those 40k employees work on Chrome?
I don't think it's because it costs half a billion dollars a year to implement the web. Half a billion dollars is a lot of money. There's a lot of space between "it's cheap" and "you need half a billion dollars"
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If not the cost then what? (How much do you think it would cost to do a full implementation of the Web platform without forking one of the existing implementations?)
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I don't understand the forking restriction. Webkit was a fork of Konquerer, Blink was a fork of Webkit. UC was a fork of Webkit. It's just not a requirement to not fork. The requirement is maintaining competitive value after you fork, which is tricky and not cheap.
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But it doesn't require $500MM a year.
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Though I think it's not just the cost of building an implementation of the Web, but also the cost of building products that make that implementation relevant. An implementation of the Web can't help users without widely used products built with a similar set of values.
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I of course agree. And it seems impossible to litigate a budget of this size over Twitter so I'll stop trying
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