Re: "This means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it?"
It's a Dominant Linux browser.
Webkit was a kde project. It was written for Linux and took over the world when Apple and Google based their browsers on it.
Naturally it has morphed a fair bit since then, but I thinks its fair to call it a dominant linux browser.
This is clearly newsworthy but Microsoft have done fsck all to make chromium work on Linux.