Chrome is a healthy mishmash of open source projects

Friday, September 5th, 2008

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So everybody’s talking about Chrome and how fast it is, and Google is talking about keeping it open and all that. Well, just how open is the sucker? How about super open. This savvy gentleman took Chrome apart and found evidence of 25 open source project libraries being used in its code. They really did take a bite out of everybody. And I bet they’re taking bits from OpenMoko and the LiMo group for Android-Chrome.

Check it out and see if you’ve got some code in there. There’s a pretty good chance, like 25 in 8,000,000,000.

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