On 22/1/24 03:07, Bret Busby wrote:
On 22/1/24 02:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 01:36:27PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Did you notice, that I was talking about the reduced, crippled
OpenSource
browser: chromium, which is based on chrome. But I was not talking
about the
chrome itself.
AFAIK are these Google related parts removed in chromium; at least
they were several years ago.
I wonder if that's the case. AFAIK Chromium is distributed by Google,
so it's just Chrome with the proprietary bits removed. I'd be surprised
if Google was going through the trouble to remove the bits that are
beneficial to them.
I'd expect a de-Googlized version of Chrome/Chromium to be named
differently (maybe Wolfram, as suggested by Bret) and distributed by
some other team (one that cares more about Free Software and privacy
than Google).
Wolfram is taken. Perhaps Vanadium?
Cheers
No - Wolfram is in the same group as Chromium, but, whilst Vanadium is
in the same period as Chromium, it is in Group 5, rather than Group 6, > in which, are Chromium (Cr), Molybdenum (Mo) (which sounds like the
jeans that Molly was wearing :) ), Wolfram (W) (commonly known as
Tungsten), and Seaborgium (Sg (but not Singapore :) ) (which makes it
sound like one of the borgs (microsoft, google, etc) have hijacked a
sealiner).
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
"
How toxic is seaborgium?
Currently, there are not very many uses of seaborgium. The element's
radioactive state makes it toxic to organisms and so has no biological
role.
"
(Maybe, microsoft or google have hijacked (made a hostile takeover of) a
sealiner, to that they can conduct their operations offshore, to evade
paying taxes (or employees) under any country's laws...)
So, maybe, a good, alternative name, for an open source web browser like
chrome/chromium, but, not controlled by the google borg, should
probably, best and most simply, be named NotChroming...
:)
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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Bret Busby
Armadale
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