So is Android. So is Chromium. So is React, and Flutter. So is Java.
Open source doesn’t mean FOSS.
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parpol@programming.dev 3 months ago[deleted]
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 months ago
bamboo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Open source does mean FOSS. It doesn’t mean community-oriented.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No it doesn’t. Different licenses dictate what you can and can’t do with open source software. Some are more restrictive than others. Open source simply means that the source code is freely available.
bamboo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It absolutely does. Open source is not simply source-available, it means that it follows the open source definition. opensource.org/osd
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Chromium (Google Chrome’s base) is also open source.
And yet, we’re still at a corporation’s mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google’s fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile.
parpol@programming.dev 3 months ago
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Except now you have to maintain a branch that’s missing everything after that release upstream.
timewarp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Users do want MV3. The people complaining about it are in the minority.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Users don’t know what the fuck Manifest is period. They just click the internet button. And for the longest time that meant the E with a loop around it. Now that means the multicolored circle.
timewarp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Users know that they want more security. MV3 makes a major of users that use Chrome safer from malicious extensions.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Why the hell would a user want MV3?
timewarp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because it makes a majority of users that use Chrome much safer. Do you do any basic research? Do you need me to point you to the getting started guide?