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> Any person or group with sufficient time and motivation could make a browser based on chromium that suits their tastes, privacy, ui and feature-wise
Having a browser "based on chromium" is really no better than chromium itself, and theoretical possibility doesn't bear out in the real world. Unless you're ok with rebasing to older version of chromium and using that for perpetuity (which might honestly be fine if you disable js), the efforts required to continually rebase to HEAD are pretty high. In fact as far as I'm aware blink (the rendering engine) and the overall security model of Chromium are really tightly coupled together, so much so that you can't choose piecemeal which pieces you want, it's all or nothing. Now I guess it's "theoretically possible" that maybe someone can go through and uncouple just the rendering engine out, but the fact that no one has done it makes me thing it's a non-trivial task. It'd be easier to just work with webkit. But that opens up another can of worms, because Apple intentionally cripples webkit in other regards to push native mobile apps over web apps (I'm not a fan of most PWA's anyway, but just showing that it's not an easy battle to win)
The only greenfeld rendering engine I've seen is that experimental one by Ekioh, and it's a sad state that the most innovation here has come from a company targetting set top boxes.
>Fuchsia will be around regardless of what happens to google.
Again, just because a project is open source doesn't mean that it's immediately adopted by the community. While I'm willing to bet that if Google dies blink will live on in some incarnation (after all, webkit has survived this long), I think it's unlikely that fuschia will. In fact it's more likely the hobbyist ones such as Haiku will survive longer, because it actually has a userbase that's excited to use it and cares about it.
Or to take another example, XNU (/Darwin) is technically "open source" but we all know that it's really just at Apple's mercy and it's a monumental effort to even build it. But at the same time, LLVM is doing really well, presumably because that in part grew out of academia. There's no way to know for sure which way Fuschia will go, but given Google's history I'd wager that it's abandoned by google in less than a decade.
>I don't feel like forever being complacent with a worse option just for the sake of ideological purity.
There are plenty of other OSs and kernels out there: Qubes, Haiku, BSDs. And better yet you can actually install them right now, and there's an actual community around it. Yes Fuschia interesting on technical grounds, but so are a dozen other projects. Take a higher level look at fuschia: the reason they're moving everything into userspace is because it's much easier to have closed-source proprietary drivers/modules that way. No need for manufacturers to abide by that GPL and release source. And based on the history of all of Google's other projects, you can bet that if you're not part of the company then anything other than minor contributions are going to be blocked.
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