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> Chromium is 99% OSS

OSS but owned totally by google.

I don't believe such a product should get any credit for being OSS. It will never do what the community wants.

But it can be forked. Which means I can go start a Chrome competitor by myself, today, with zero up-front investment.

Good luck with making meaningful changes with zero investment.

At best, you could probably maintain a patch that changes some of the more Google-oriented behaviour of Chrome. A full-blown fork would never keep up with new development in Google or Firefox.

I worked for a team that did maintain a fork. It was an insane amount of effort just to keep up with the commits going in.

> maintain a patch that changes some of the more Google-oriented behaviour of Chrome

This exists as:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

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