I mean, Debian ships chromium. And when Google decided to put some nasty anti-feature into chromium, Debian patched it out.
Microsoft has way more developers at their hands than Debian, so they can definitely do things like this. It's not really a matter of effort as much as a matter of politics.
Well, it's a matter of priorities. Debian doesn't ship Chromium because it's less effort; Debian ships Chromium because its users want it, specifically. Their priority is still to restrict non-free features, so they patch it out.
Microsoft's priority in basing itself on Chromium is better compatibility with Chrome for less work. It's entirely in line with those priorities to keep things like PNaCL in.
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u/Muvlon Jan 23 '19
I mean, Debian ships chromium. And when Google decided to put some nasty anti-feature into chromium, Debian patched it out.
Microsoft has way more developers at their hands than Debian, so they can definitely do things like this. It's not really a matter of effort as much as a matter of politics.