Post #2389478

2023-10-22 18:23 UTC

@RickByers@toot.cafe Would the vitality of the web platform benefit if Google moved away from freely contributing to Chromium, thus motivating other players to invest more in competing browser engines? I can see the logic of kicking the free riders off the Chromium gravy train. But will the displaced free riders do the Right Thing for the web platform, or invest more in their own walled gardens, or guesses about the Next Big Thing?

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@michaelchampion@indieweb.social 2023-10-22 18:26

@RickByers@toot.cafe I struggle to imagine Satya saying "oh well, they caught on to our game, let's find a spare $billion/year or so and maintain a Chromium fork that is feature-compatible (and bug-for-bug compatible :-( ) with Chrome." I can more easily imagine "let's see if our LLM's can be trained to reverse-engineer Chrome deltas so that Edgeium stays good enough so customers don't switch to Chrome and we lose the Bing traffic Edge generates, without us having to spend a ton of engineering time".

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@michaelchampion@indieweb.social 2023-10-22 18:30

@RickByers@toot.cafe I struggle to imagine Satya saying "oh well, they caught on to our game, let's find a spare $billion/year or so and maintain a Chromium fork that is feature-compatible (and bug-for-bug compatible :-( ) with Chrome." I can more easily imagine "let's see if our LLM's can be trained to reverse-engineer Chrome deltas so that Edgeium stays good enough so customers don't switch to Chrome and we lose the Bing traffic Edge generates".

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