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Germany's Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome

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Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome

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Google would legally separate Chrome into a foundation, retaining ultimate ownership and intellectual property rights and give Ecosia operational responsibility for 10 years, Ecosia said.
Eh... uhh... does Ecosia even have the ability to maintain such a large and complicated code base?
- Chromium is open source, so they'd only need to steward the Google parts of Chrome. I can't speak to the size of that codebase, but given that it's just the part that makes it shitty, and Google would no longer be in control, that could be significantly pruned.
  
  According to this Google accounts for 90% of Chromium code contributions. If Google does not control Chrome anymore, expect them to mostly go away.