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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 28 2021, @07:46PM
i don't have time for all these reasonable questions! :)
1). yes, you would generally require a commercial internet connection or self host in a mom and pop-ish datacenter.
2). manual web/traditional marketing and self-built and run mailing lists.
3) marketing
4) sure, it;'s problematic but you can mine monero and you may be able to find debit/cc cards that can be "loaded" with crypto currency. The gatekeepers are a problem but if people would just start using and accepting it we could get tpo a critical mass and force the issue with our governments or route around governments completely with smart contracts, web 3.0, etc. Of course this is all much more difficult than just being a slave.