Google Not Providing Security Updates to Older Browsers
torn
I honestly can't make up my mind if I just don't care or if I think Google is once again spitting in the face of the open source community by further crippling AOSP.
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Not caring is the right answer. This is like if Microsoft stopped updating Internet Explorer, it sucks either way and you should have been using Chrome from the beginning.
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>>This is like if Microsoft stopped updating Internet Explorer, it sucks either way and you should have been using Chrome from the beginning.
Not exactly, as Microsoft's technology is all completely proprietary. However, AOSP is a Linux fork, and as such open source developers might find much to do with the stock Android browser. Google has certainly made a ton of of money off of Android by using an open and free technology (Linux) to create an ecosystem for their proprietary technology. I certainly don't begrudge Google the success of this strategy, but I do wish they would throw the open source community a bone here and there.
I have mixed feelings about this because 1 it is true that there are open browsers developers can tinker wi...
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Not exactly, as Microsoft's technology is all completely proprietary. However, AOSP is a Linux fork, and as such open source developers might find much to do with the stock Android browser. Google has certainly made a ton of of money off of Android by using an open and free technology (Linux) to create an ecosystem for their proprietary technology. I certainly don't begrudge Google the success of this strategy, but I do wish they would throw the open source community a bone here and there.
I have mixed feelings about this because 1 it is true that there are open browsers developers can tinker wi...
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