The original statement was "If Google ever discontinued Chrome support it would be picked up by the community in a flash."
Why doesn't community pick other browsers in a flash?
Why doesn't community pick other browsers in a flash?
Yes, irrelevant products that no one uses eventually die. At present, Chromium is not one of those, and is installed on billions of devices and used every single day on mobile and on desktop. Entire businesses and derivative ecosystems have been built on top of Chromium (Edge, Brave, Node.js and all of its dependencies, Electron, etc.). If there's an economic incentive to keep an open source product going, it will keep going. Anyway, here's the repo if you're interested in contributing: https://github.com/chromium/chromium
We have plenty of examples of open source databases, operating systems, libraries and languages leaving the major companies they were created at and being scooped up by a foundation or consortium to maintain.
WebOS is a great example. Created by Palm as a mobile OS before they sold it to HP, who open sourced it. Now the primary contributor is LG, who uses it in smart tvs.
But there's plenty of other examples in the open source world. Chromium is far too important, and there's already thousands of eyeballs on that code base. There would be a Chromium Foundation established very quickly if Google abandoned.
We have just as many left to die. We just don't know or don't talk about them anymore.
> WebOS is a great example. Created by Palm as a mobile OS before they sold it to HP, who open sourced it. Now the primary contributor is LG, who uses it in smart tvs.
Ah. So the mythical "community" that will scoop in and continue developing is a compani with a 60-billion yearly revenue. Got it.
> Chromium is far too important, and there's already thousands of eyeballs on that code base.
Eyeballs rarely, if ever, translate into understanding the codebase, or being able to do anything about it.
> There would be a Chromium Foundation established very quickly if Google abandoned.
Can I interest you in Apache Foundation where great amazing projects no longer supported by their original company go to slowly slide into oblivion?