If you search for “Microsoft edge open source” there will come out a lot of blog posts from five years ago praising a Microsoft Press release that announces that edge is open source .

But then, there’s no actual repository, the GitHub is empty, there’s only the MIT license and that’s it

So, they publish the source somewhere or it’s just marketing?

  • @loki@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Chromium is licensed with 3-clause BSD, which allow developers to make closed source proprietary product on top of open-source code. Microsoft Edge isn’t opensource as Google Chrome isn’t open-source while they’re both built on chromium.

    I don’t think Microsoft ever claimed it was open-source.

    https://archive.is/sdmDL

    • @sushrit_lawliet
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      21 year ago

      Was sure from day one when they first announced the chromium pivot that they’d definitely cop out citing the license. Not surprised all these years later.

  • @dska22@lemmy.world
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    I guess it’s marketing and smoke on the eyes, unfortunately.

    It could be that sources are actually available somewhere but I couldn’t find them either.

    • @Bnuttn@sopuli.xyz
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      Chromium is open source and thats what Edge (and Chrome) is built on. So yeah you cant really say that Edge is directly open source I guess.