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India launches competition to build a homegrown web browser (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like, chromium with a fresh coat of paint?

[–] LiveLM 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's always Chromium with a coat of paint 😒

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

©hrome paint

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh you mean chromium with additional spyware?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Like spyware with chromium coated on it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unrealistic if it involves a web engine (it might take a long time for any team to implement something) but good for everyone if it succeeds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would you say that any browser that uses Blink is Chromium with a coat of paint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bureaucracies always do such a shit job with tech. A complete failure to understand the nuance.

I'm not a fan of capitalism generally, but it does have it's virtues - foremost is figuring out whether a project is economically viable. If an indian browser could be successful then it would already be a thing. A competition isn't going to change the long term viability of a project like this.