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#OpenInfra has only gone and joined the #LinuxFoundation
Artist formerly known as #OpenStack to huddle under same umbrella as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
OpenInfra arguably lost the fight years ago, a fact made glaringly obvious when stalwarts such as the veteran #Linux vendor SUSE decided to drop SUSE OpenStack Cloud in 2019 and go all-in with #Kubernetes.
theregister.com/2025/03/12/ope

Still good to see #opensource projects finding log term support even if they are niche offerings now!

The Register · OpenInfra has only gone and joined the Linux FoundationBy Richard Speed
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The Blink engine is being used in a lot of places. If I'm not mistaken this is also the engine used in #Electron.

WebKit in itself can be found everywhere in the open source world, but it is also maintained by #Apple.

But what about #Servo? The former Mozilla project turned #LinuxFoundation project based on #rust. There is no Servo web browser in the wild so far, that I know of.

But in essence, thems the only 3:
1. Blink
2. WebKit
3. Servo
4. Gecko (but... #Mozilla)

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Have we defeated #browser #hegemony with more browser hegemony?

Since #chrome is now owned by the #LinuxFoundation, is it okay to call it the whole world's web browser?

The problem of course being not the browser, but as alluded to earlier in this thread, it's about maintaining open web standards, and therefore it is intrinsically linked to the web rendering engine being used.

In the case of chrome, it's Blink...

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Recently #Google gave away custodianship to the #LinuxFoundation. This means that the actual web browser, its core engine Blink and the build environment is now under the control of that we can gladly call a respectable open source foundation (or we'd be using BSD or something).

The central actor is still there, but it's one guided by the needs of many governments, many nation states, many organizations. So it's a bit more decentralized than Microsoft.

Which begs the question...

"After thorough consideration, we see joining forces with the Linux Foundation as the best way to secure financial stability, strengthen collaboration across the open-source ecosystem, and enhance long-term community support." - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of
@OpenInfra

lists.openinfra.org/archives/l

lists.openinfra.orgHelp Us Shape the OpenInfra Foundation’s Next Chapter - Foundation - lists.openinfra.org

Progress against patent trolls:

"#UnifiedPatents' goal is to deter predatory #patent claims, which it does through efforts like its #crowdsourced contests to identify #PriorArt that would invalidate an improperly granted patent…It has successfully challenged over 55 #NPE ["non-practicing entity" or #PatentTroll] efforts that threatened #OpenSource software."
theregister.com/2024/09/18/ope

The Register · Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trollsBy Thomas Claburn