[nxrabl]

That makes two companies who both maintain their own Chromium forks and run direct competitors to core Google search products. I wonder if we'll see Google start to close off open development on Chrome - Microsoft will likely be fine, but that could put Brave in a precarious position.

[vanviegen]

I'm not sure if they can without rewriting the whole thing, the original (WebKit/KHTML) code base being GPL.

On the other hand, the Google lawyers seem to have found an excuse to link some proprietary code into Chome (that's not part of Chromium). Does anybody know what that excuse is, and if it provides a loophole large enough to close off Chrome development?

[soundnote]

They could pull a Red Hat.