Google launched Chromium alongside its Chrome net browser in 2008. It’s the open-source infrastructure that powers Chrome and plenty of different browsers constructed on it, together with Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave.
In addition to Google, there are already a number of notable corporations on board with the initiative, together with Meta, Microsoft, and Opera. Microsoft stated becoming a member of will assist “present clear and open governance that directs funds in the direction of community-driven wants.”
Google additionally highlighted the greater than 100,000 commits it made to Chromium final 12 months, in addition to its efforts to “make investments closely” into the open-source undertaking:
Google additionally continues to take a position closely within the shared infrastructure of the Open Source undertaking to ‘maintain the lights on’, together with having hundreds of servers endlessly working hundreds of thousands of checks, responding to lots of of incoming bugs per day, guaranteeing the necessary ones get mounted, and continually investing in code well being to maintain the entire undertaking maintainable.
Even if Google is making an attempt to point out the DOJ how a lot it contributes to Chromium, the creation of the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers suggests the open-source undertaking would nonetheless have backing with out the corporate’s involvement.
