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minus-squareAshley Graves@lm.possum.citylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agostill not as bad as Chrome
minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoTrue, but if you use that excuse, you’ve given Mozilla a blank check to continue worsening their browser! A metaphorical blank check. Obviously Google is the one signing the physical one to Mozilla.
minus-squareAshley Graves@lm.possum.citylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoeven in the event that it does get worse I can just downgrade or even fork it myself one of the many benefits of open-source software
minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoGoogle’s Chromium is open source too… Why don’t you just downgrade or fork that yourself? Or, perhaps, a large company that monolithically accepts changes to a product has a lot of control, even if you can download the source code
minus-squareAshley Graves@lm.possum.citylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoChromium is to Chrome what Darwin is to macOS.
still not as bad as Chrome
True, but if you use that excuse, you’ve given Mozilla a blank check to continue worsening their browser!
A metaphorical blank check. Obviously Google is the one signing the physical one to Mozilla.
even in the event that it does get worse I can just downgrade or even fork it myself
one of the many benefits of open-source software
Google’s Chromium is open source too… Why don’t you just downgrade or fork that yourself?
Or, perhaps, a large company that monolithically accepts changes to a product has a lot of control, even if you can download the source code
Chromium is to Chrome what Darwin is to macOS.