Wrong wrong wrong. Google's browser project, whether it's open source or not, controls the internet. It doesn't matter if it's "Chrome" or just "Google's version of Chrome"* - Google develops its browser to support Google pages and technology. Google develops its pages and technology to support its browser.

Because of this, all browsers are forced to ape Google. They get lost in a never-ending maelstrom of trying to copy Chrome after the fact, or they won't be able to see the most important websites on the internet. At the same time, website owners must copy Google's web-design - because if they don't, their pages will "look wrong", in the most important browser in the world.

The only way to defeat that, is to force Google to not simultaneously own both the entire internet and a browser.

It would be like if Ford had owned the roads when the Model T came out. We'd all still be driving Model Ts, because Ford would never have allowed anything else.

*Currently, Chrome is not open source, as well. Just FYI.