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Not sure what to make of this statement:

"the costs of sharing code now outweighed the advantages"

Does that mean Google will only be a good open source citizen as long as it is advantageous to them and on a project-by-project basis?

Edit: Well it is part of Chromium, which is open source, so maybe I was too rash.




They forked it because they want to take the code in another direction. They aren't being any worse open source citizen than anybody else that forks open source.




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