Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

While Google awaits a decision about whether it will be required to sell its Chrome browser as an antitrust remedy, the search giant has joined with the Linux Foundation to announce an initiative to support the open source Chromium project upon which the Chrome browser depends.

The project, called Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers, aims "to foster a sustainable environment of open-source contributions towards the health of the Chromium ecosystem and financially support a community of developers who want to contribute to the project, encouraging widespread support and continued technological progress for Chromium embedders," explained Shruthi Sreekanta, technical program manager at Google, in a blog post.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, which gets at least $500,000 annually from Google for its platinum membership fee [PDF], said the browser foundation support group will "provide much-needed funding and development support for open development of projects within the Chromium ecosystem ...