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by piyush_soni 3937 days ago
Ignoring other things, there is no shame in forking and developing an Open Source project on one's own (license permitting, which the Chromium's BSD license does). That's the whole purpose of Open Source projects.
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It's legal, sure, but it's shameless and wrong to take an open source project built by your competitor, change the branding to yours, bundle it with crapware, and pretend you're innovating.
That's what I was saying. Open source projects are _meant to be_ forked and rebranded. There is nothing to be ashamed of here, license granting.