Google Chromium Research Articles

Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source

Open-source software is used by almost all technology companies and has become an integral part of the technical infrastructure of digital capitalism. Generally, developers of open-source software have been viewed as a social movement at odds with the capitalist profit motive. This idealized view has been challenged as companies have made significant investments in open-source since the early 2000s. Current research frames corporate participation in open-source as fundamentally extractive in nature, failing to account for these sizable investments. Through a historical analysis of Google's Chromium browser project, we provide another way to understand corporate participation in open-source. This article takes a material political economic approach to argue that control of open-source projects can grant companies logistical power that enables them to influence standards and shape the Internet as an infrastructure for digital capitalism.

A Preventive Risk Analysis for Managing Distributed Software Projects based on Deliverable

In a distributed software development environment, software projects are geographically distributed with minimal face-toface interaction between team members. Recent software functions are delegated to popular open source software projects: -examples like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, Android and the Apache OpenOffice Suite, etc. So the managers must know how to perform distributed projects and its team. Most of software risk management is done throughout the whole project from inception to commissioning. The aim of this study is to understand the need for the risk assessment and management based on deliverable for both agile and traditional methods of software development process. In this study, the authors propose a model, where the protective risk analysis can be done based on the deliverables, so that require mitigations can be provided. Mitigation factors can be also based on the seriousness of the deliverable

A taste of Capsicum

Capsicum is a lightweight operating system (OS) capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs, providing new kernel primitives (sandboxed capability mode and capabilities ) and a userspace sandbox API. These tools support decomposition of monolithic UNIX applications into compartmentalized logical applications, an increasingly common goal that is supported poorly by existing OS access control primitives. We demonstrate our approach by adapting core FreeBSD utilities and Google's Chromium Web browser to use Capsicum primitives, and compare the complexity and robustness of Capsicum with other sandboxing techniques.