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Vivaldi also kept Manifest V2, so old extensions do keep working there. They also have a mastodon server, and email/calendar/feeds, so they offer more more of the box than Firefox. Lots of projects built on other open source projects like Chromium and KDE do offer legitimate alternatives.

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pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m not talking about “now”; I’m talking about the future. Enshittification is inevitable in proprietary software.

Free-software licenses provide risk mitigation against different legal threats or behaviors that are seen as potentially harmful by developers:

Frequently used protective and permissive licenses	AGPLv3	GPLv3	GPLv2	LGPLv3	LGPLv2.1	MPLv2	Apache-2.0	BSD
SaaS/cloud	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Tivoization	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Patent trolling	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Proprietization	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial	Partial	Partial	No	No
Granularity	Project	Project	Project	Library	Library	File	-	-
Trademark grant	?	?	?	?	?	No	No	No

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benny@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
While I agree with what you’re saying, this is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Funding sources and incentives also matter, GPL projects don’t enshittify, but it can be harder to build a community with those developers who would like a more permissive license, while most but maybe not all Apache projects can remain faithful to their missions and not enshittify. More competition means I as a user can choose from features and other things too, and not just the license.

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