India launches contest to build homegrown web browser

> IP and copyright as an invitation to copy and duplicate

This is rather condescending take considering that all of the web standards were set and adopted in US for the rest of the world..has any country other than us created a major brand new browser from scratch? Even most of major us based browsers are rip offs of each other, except maybe netscape —which isnt major anymore. IE based on spyglass, mozilla on netscape, brave and edge on chromium.. which itself uses modified webkit, which came from open source KHTML … ‘invitation to copy and duplicate’ seems to be the norm here, no?

Reading the announcement it seems their biggest concern is privacy/security from a NS perspective by using Indian SSL key servers instead of ones from other countries, not actually the engineering task of implementing every browser standard from scratch, plus other nicety features like signing documents within the browser.

At this point in time I think a large heavily funded government project is the only way we are going to end up with a fourth working rendering engine but no one wants to put in the resources because a sanitized Firefox fork is usually good enough for nearly all applications that need a browser of some sort focused on privacy and security that people have already spent way too much time on to make standards compliant