India launches competition to build a homegrown web browser
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Like, chromium with a fresh coat of paint?
It's always Chromium with a coat of paint 😒
©hrome paint
Oh you mean chromium with additional spyware?
Like spyware with chromium coated on it?
Would you say that any browser that uses Blink is Chromium with a coat of paint?
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.
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.