What an absurd argument by Google. Chrome can still be spun off into an independent US-based company, no harm to national security there.
To me im not sure what the right answer is. Do I think Google is great? Not anymore. But that fact that they have significant presence with chrome and do invest heavily in android and chrome, I could see their arguement on selling. Without their investment, would updates come regularly? Would vulnerabilities be found as quickly?
One of the major pros unfortunately of massive companies and their technology is their investment in defending it.
And so so so many people and businesses rely on chrome by default.
Your just making more examples of why google shouldnt have control of chrome.
Also, is firefox any less secure then chrome?
Ohh boy Firefox is turning to shit too… They even rewrote their Terms of Use a couple of days ago after some backlash.
Don’t get me wrong, I agree. What Im getting at is more of the “they have the funds and manpower to keep it up”. I’m not saying it can’t be done, just wondering what ifs.
While chrome is an extreme example, what I’m getting at is resources. Projects are very expensive. And they may require funding to upkeep. In other words, if sold off, it would need to be to a company of scale that could afford to continue to develop and maintain. Plus, My guess is if actually sold off, it would be under some deal that would allow Google to still influence. Whether that’s like the Firefox deal to default to Google search or some other manner. Either way, I don’t see a sale of chrome being a “win” without knowing other factors.
Edit: forgot to answer your other question. I don’t see Firefox as less secure but tying back to my original text, they recieve a ton of funding. A lot of which is from their Google deal I believe among other things. Which i could see ending up happening if chrome were to actually sell too.
If it weren’t for KDE and KHTML there wouldn’t be no Chrome. Just hand over the project to a non-profit foundation and the FOSS community.
