Even those not working on Chrome seem determined to build a moat for Chrome by not interoperating with other browsers. See Google search results on Firefox for Android or Google Hangouts on desktop. Google's non-Chrome employees are cementing Chrome's dominance. Can't discount.
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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Just trying to make the point that even the near trillion dollar corporations haven't built an engine from scratch (except Microsoft.) It's not cheap and it's getting more expensive all the time as the web platform expands dramatically pretty much every year.
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How large are IE and Safari teams? Likely not an order of magnitude larger than MoCo+contributors
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Gecko on desktop rocks so forking only makes sense on mobile. On android Mozilla already has 2 browsers based on Blink: Focus and Rocket.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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