Germany's Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome

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• paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google would legally separate Chrome into a foundation, retaining ultimate ownership and intellectual property rights and give Ecosia operational responsibility for 10 years, Ecosia said.

  Eh… uhh… does Ecosia even have the ability to maintain such as large and complicated code base?

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Chromium is open source, so they’d only need to steward the Google parts of Chrome. I can’t speak to the size of that codebase, but given that it’s just the part that makes it shitty, and Google would no longer be in control, that could be significantly pruned.

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    • unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      According to this Google accounts for 90% of Chromium code contributions. If Google does not control Chrome anymore, expect them to mostly go away.

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