Google Chromium, Chromeplus and Iron Browser: Why Source code and Distribution Models Matter

Posted by scrubs on Dec 15, 2010 8:42 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond
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The internet has been awash with the fallout from Oracle’s stewardship of OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu’s announcement that Xorg would be replaced by Wayland and Unity would be the next desktop. The F-word was used. A lot. No, not that F-word. The other F-word. Forking. OpenOffice.org has already forked to LibreOffice and I’ve no doubt that Unity haters will fork off to Gnome Shell 3. Fair enough. It’s all about choice in the end and choice creates competition and competition often creates innovation and cross fertilization (as well as fragmentation). Read the article at Freesoftware Magazine.

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