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Sephr on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge

Pepper is not proprietary, it's completely open source.

TazeTSchnitzel on May 8, 2015 | [–]

That doesn't make it not proprietary! It's open-source, sure, but it's not something easy for other browser vendors to implement and only has a single implementation.

bzbarsky on May 8, 2015 | [–]

Being open source doesn't help other people to adopt the code if it has hard dependencies on other parts of Chrome.

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