>Google has both done more for and invested more into progressing the open web than anyone else.

One could also make that case about Microsoft with Microsoft office in the '90s. Embrace extend extinguish always involves being a contributor in the beginning.

>Blink is open source and modular. Maintaining a fork is much less effort than the alternative of maintaining a different browser engine.

Yeah and winning Asia Physical 100 is easier than winning a World's Strongest Man competition, and standing in a frying pan is preferable to jumping in a fire.

I'm baffled by appeals to the open source nature of Blink and Chromium to suggest that they're positive indicators of an open web that any random Joe could jump in and participate in. That's only the case if you're capable of the monumental weightlifting that comes with the task.