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by zaarn 2685 days ago
These two "nobody" reasons is why we are tettering on the edge of a browser monopoly, which will likely hurt desktop apps too if they use electron.
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Monopoly = IE6, closed source, controlling the web.

Monopoly != multiple large vendors contributing to Chrome/Webkit/etc.

Chromium is still only a single engine under majority control by Google. Almost noone else contributing to Chromium does enough that they could maintain the engine as a fork indefinitely.