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woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 day agoI mean the choice between only two browser engines isn’t what I would call “free” though, especially since Firefox is also pulling more and more bullshit.
Gecko and Chromium are both fully free software. Old Edge isn’t.
He made a good overall point.
No. It was a very weak defense of proprietary software.
Just saying he is wrong doesn’t actually make him wrong.
Just saying that doesn’t make it wrong but the “argument” is wrong.
Mondez@lemdro.id 1 day ago
Less diversity isn’t good, the argument wasn’t in favour of proprietary software, it was against platform monoculture.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Less proprietary crap is good. Free software is always preferable to fake diversity through proprietary Microsoft products.
Mondez@lemdro.id 14 hours ago
Except that isn’t what we have, we still have proprietary crap that is just open core now and that open core is dominated by a single corp that can dictate what standards it wants just like when IE was on top.