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> So can a Mozilla licensed browser, the licenses are very similar.

That's the point: competition is necessary. If Mozilla adopts Chromium, there's no competition anymore. Google can afford to make all the choices.

> [...] > If there was a healthy ecosystem of Chromium-based browsers then one vendor not playing by the rules would have limited impact.

Unless that vendor is also behind ~100% of the development, in which case nobody else gets a meaningful say.




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