[skybrian]

This is kind of weird, because if there is anything Microsoft doesn't like, they can patch it and make it work differently. Just like Apple did with KHTML and Google did with Webkit.

I don't really get why people judge source code by politics rather than "stealing" (forking) from the best.

[zaarn]

Writing and maintaining a modern webbrowser isn't cheap or easy; exactly why MS switched to Chromium as an engine.

Google is the main power behind all Chromium development and there have already been plenty of examples of the devs going "our way or the highway" with noone forking the browser engine. Upcoming is the new change to block adblockers from working properly in chrome. I see nobody willing to fork chromium over that.