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Linux users are more likely than most to be familiar with Chromium, Google's the free and open source web project that serves as the basis for their wildly popular Chrome. Since the project's inception over a decade ago, users have been able to compile the BSD licensed code into a browser that's almost the same as the closed-source Chrome. As such, most distributions offer their own package for the browser and some even include it in the base install. Unfortunately, that may be changing soon.
[...] To the average Chromium user, this doesn't sound like much of a problem. In fact, you might even assume it doesn't apply to you. The language used in the post makes it sound like Google is referring to browsers which are spun off of the Chromium codebase, and at least in part, they are. But the search giant is also using this opportunity to codify their belief that the only official Chromium builds are the ones that they provide themselves. With that simple change, anyone using a distribution-specific build of Chromium just became persona non grata.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @06:38PM
Woz's only influence with Apple was the Apple 8-bit computer line.
Apple Computer's amazing rise came with the Macintosh computer in the 80s and the new Macintosh line in the 90s based on Steve Jobs' NeXT computer company when Steve was invited back to Apple to save it after the CEO had given him the boot years ago and proceeded to drive the company into the ground. The iPad, iPhone, iPod, all had zip to do with Woz who didn't do anything at Apple after the Apple II series. (Unsure about the flop Apple III.) Don't get me wrong, Woz was the engineer that Jobs needed so that together they could start Apple in the 70s, but his contributions were only useful during the 8-bit era. He hasn't done anything since in computers. Jobs >> Woz in the tech world.
As for Google, it wasn't the CEO who turned it evil. The original founders did that and returned to run the company after leaving day to day management to a business type for a while. It's more evil than ever under their management. Their moral character (one of them at least) is pretty bad in personal matters at Google as well, with screwing all the female underlings in the office as possible in those early days. I don't think there was ever any aversion to getting huge and rich and doing whatever was necessary to achieve it. Now, managing perceptions so that they seemed unmotivated by money and power? They managed that successfully for a long time until their results and methods could no longer be reconciled with the PR.