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The Linux kernel isn't a good comparison because kernel development is not led by a corporation with its own distinct commercial interests. Sure Linux a monoculture, but it's a uniquely healthy one.

And the Linux kernel isn't a good analogy because the web is a standard, not an implementation. In that sense it's more akin to UNIX, or IP-based networking.

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I do share your thoughts and sentiments at other times (and peer commenter too). The contrarian in me likes to offer up this analogy, though I interpret it much more loosely than the HN critiques I earn each time. To me there is an argument I feel can made that a shared "browser" kernel has some advantage in, for example, security. More eyes, more contributors, which number more organizations than Google these days

https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/chromium/contri...

Still, there is a difference between contribution and control, which I hope and dream can and will change.

https://www.learninternetgrow.com/who-controls-chromium/

I will add that I appreciate your response, generally, but especially the missing hyperbole. This civil discourse is very preferable.

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