Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package

Courtesy Linux Today  Wed, 12/02/2009 - 09:02

tom callaway: "Google is forking existing FOSS code bits for Chromium like a rabbit makes babies: frequently, and usually, without much thought.

Rather than leverage the existing APIs from upstream projects like icu, libjingle, and sqlite (just to name a few), they simply fork a point in time of that code and hack their API to shreds for chromium to use."

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