More like Chrome engineers ditacting to Opera. Have you seen the chippy back and forth that simmered for years between Apple and Google
engineers in the Webkit developers threads leading to the Blink fork?
They
say it is open source, but they maintain iron control on what goes in
and out, probably more so now b/c they forked it and don’t have the
Apple engineers who were probably the only people who had the technical and political clout to stand up to Google.